The Research Of Mencius Moral Education Thought And Contemporary Value

As an important part of the Chinese traditional culture, the moral education has a great influence on the Chinese historical and the cultural psychology's formation and the development. With the development of our socialist construction and improvement of the people's material life, the socialist civic virtues education is becoming more and more important. To strengthen the moral education and to enhance the civic virtues accomplishment becomes the essential condition of the advancement of the socialist politics and the material civilization. The culture can succeed and expand . Presently, under the background of building up a harmonious society, it's of great practical significance to build a socialist morality education system which agrees with our national reality. That we inherit, develop and study the Mencius moral education thought and the contemporary value of it.The introduction of this article analysis the question on the Mencius moral education thought and its contemporary value and present situation, points out theoretical and practical significance about the research, describes the origins of subjects, and carries out a brief description of the main research methods, basic ideas and the framework of this article.This article's main is divided into five parts. In the first part, the theory of the Mencius moral education thought's basic - human nature is discussed. It briefly reviews the development of the theory of human nature, and discusses the background, content and its positive significance of the Mencius's theory of human nature. Original Goodness of Human Nature in Mencius is not only the succession of confucius's theory of "benevolence", but also on the "benevolence" of thought development. He equals benevolence and righteousness, and tries to develop people's initiative of Confucius thought. Mencius said:" natures of human" are the characteristics of people ,with the reason that as a people forms a people is that people have an inherent dynamism of the people certainly have a good side, that is, four-terminal, expanding and filling, that is, "Cedar" that benevolence, righteousness, propriety, four moral Moses. It has positive significance on moral self-cultivation, cultivation of the ideal personality, complying with ethics laws and encouraging people to learning.The second part introduces the core of Mencius's education thought - - understanding human relations. It discusses the premise of its politic, the philosophic, theoretic and its connotation: the moral education's theory origin based on "four kind of moral characters", the view of entering society on foundation moral education of the five ethics morals, taking the understanding human relations as the central moral education goal, taking independent as the characteristic moral education process, all these shows the richness of Mencius fully the moral education ideological content.The third part outlines the goal of the Mencius moral education thought- supporting the political. The moral education thought takes the ideology the performance, displays the understanding political objective and the social class attribute in the real life. Obviously, to Mencius's educational the need of serves for the implementation of "kind politics", raises the ideal personality, adapts the feudal country.The fourth part discusses the method and the principle on Mencius moral education thought. It abundantly elaborate growing the soul intentionally, holding to high ideals cultivates vital energy, engaging in self-examination, correcting evil doings and revert to good deeds, exercising the will, by returning to approximately and so on methods. Mencius's these methods principles have the positive significance on our moral training, which with the morals knew and the moral raise, therefore, we must positively study and critically inherit these methods, promote our moral education work effectively.The fifth part is about the Mencius moral education thought modern value and the enlightenment. This is starting point and the foothold this article. We study Mencius's moral education thought to provide some kind of profound inspiration, promote our country socialism thought moral reconstruction, raises the new person of having the ideal, the morals, the literacy and the discipline, serves for the promotion socialism material civilization and the political civilization construction. At the same time, it's also of the positive practical significance resist corrupt thought the mammonism attitude, the hedonism attitude, to promote the socialist ideological and ethical progress. Certainly we must take its essence the Mencius moral education thought that adopt and abandon its dregs to serves better the socialism moral education construction.