Educational Rousseau Moral Sentiments

Rousseau’s ideas (political, philosophical, educational, ethical) has a majorinfluence in the history of Western thought, education thought is a part of theirthinking. His education in ideological epitomized in the Emil, the core of which ismoral education book by Emil in different age of education to set out his views oneducation. Rousseau believed that education should be responsive to people’s naturalinstinct, to instil a different emotion at different ages, and supports nature education,advocates respecting the natural development of children’s physical, psychological,and advocated the pursuit of useful ethics in real life emotions contribute to theperfection of the human personality, morality. Thus he raised important moraleducation idea: moral education in the cultivation of moral feeling.Our country is in the current period of social transformation, the original impactof ethical values, rules, new ethics have not yet fully set up, there is a certain moralissues, prominent among which is the moral feeling of indifference. Moral emotion inhuman morality has the important role of social moral construction therefore weshould strengthen the cultivation of moral feeling. Rousseau’s thought of moralemotion theory of education provides resources for us. This described has Rousseaumoral education thought of produced background and moral emotional educationthought of main content; theory based: free and equal, and since love, and mercy heart,and conscience; moral emotional education formed of main stage and moralemotional education of purpose; pointed out that current China moral construction inthe emotional education attention enough of problem, description moral emotional inpeople of acts quality in the of role, through moral emotional of training is promotionpeople of moral progress of effective way, and Rousseau’s thought of emotionaleducation can give inspiration to moral and emotional education in contemporaryChina.