On Human's Harmonious Development

Human's harmonious development is a new angle of view and dimension to discuss the issue of Human's development, is also a complement of the all-round and liberal development.It lays emphasis on relationship and state as a "relationship-state" category. Our basic starting point putting forward Human's harmonious development lies in an attempt to solve diverse contradictions and clashes which appear in the period of the social transformation in China, to advance Human's all-round and liberal development. Human's harmonious development is a unceasing course in which we must solve contradictions and clashes.Human's harmonious development mainly contains two meanings: on the one hand, it's the body and mind's unity of oneself, each one is a independent and integrated person, and a entity of his body and mind. On the other hand, it's the unity of Human and the outside world. Furthermore, this unity includes two implications: firstly, it's the unity of Human and nature. Secondly, it's the unity of individuality and race.The actual base of Human's harmonious development is Human's practice of production and living. Human exists in a way of social practice activity in which the various contradictory relations—Human and nature, person to person, person and the society, and person and himself—take shape, and the development appeal-request of the consummate harmony of the Human and outside-world relation is implied. In another way, Human's harmonious development, as a ideal condition of Human's development, is also the value tendency of mankind in essence, provided with a rationality of value. "Human's harmonious development" is a tendency of value, the reality of personal essence in one's own, and also just a person coming into a real person. It seeks just the right person himself, choosing the personal choice of Human's essence.The basic laws of Human's harmonious development contain the law of the harmonious development of Human and the environment, the law of the harmonious development of person and himself, and the law of the harmony between the limit and infinity and between decreasing laterality and increasing generality of Human's development. Human exists by practice, grasping Human's activity laws in practice and finds a basic way to realize Human's harmonious development:to develop productive force and culture, improve designs of social institutions.Human's harmonious development mainly contains the harmonious development of individual body and mind, of human and nature, of person to person, and of person and the society. The harmonious development of individual body and mind is just the coordinating development of the two aspects—individual objective body and subjective mind, substance and consciousness, physiology and psychology, physical quality and spiritual quality, etc.—during which an ideal perfect individual person character comes to realize by mutual complement and advance. The harmonious development of individual body and mind is the basic condition of social harmonious development. The harmonious development of human and nature is just to set up the intergrowth relationship between Human and nature, to establish the ecological consciousness, and to construct the ecological civilization. The harmonious development of person to person is just to fabricate harmonious socialist interpersonal relationship by the true heart and the true love. It is the inherent request of the harmonious society. The harmonious development of person and the society is just to cope with the relationship of interest between the individual person and the community correctly, to fabricate the harmonious relationship between the individual person and the society on the base of the human rights, equity and justice by co-helpful and co-developing.The person developing harmoniously—harmonious person—is the person of coordinating unitary of personal internal and external elements. He displays a ideal state of personal existence on the static state, and displays the coordinating development of person and himself, and person and his outside-world on the motive state. As an individual person as is concerned, the harmonious person mainly means that the two respects of individual body and mind is under the optimal state, and the individual person comes into a harmonious individuality. We can find out that there should be the following several characters at least to a harmonious person if looking closely at him in an angle of view of modern education: (1)the harmony of personal character. (2)the harmony of learning. (3)the harmony of knowledge and action. (4)the harmony of body and mind. The harmonious person is the cell and the subjective base of the harmonious society, and is also the important content of the harmonious society. It is the historical mission of modern education to implement the harmonious education and to cultivate the harmonious person.The basic trail of thoughts to promote Human's harmonious development is to solve various contradictions and clashes carefully and skillfully, coordinate well the relations between Human and nature, person to person, person and the society, and person and himself with the viewpoint of scientific development.