On The Life-based Moral Education

With the coming of "Life Era" in 21th century and consideration of our national practical social background, the paper brings education in ethics into the visual threshold in one's life. At the same time, the paper points out the problem existing in it.: lacking of the vital theoretical and practical basis, education in ethics separates moral integrity from a human being, his existence and his life as a whole, which deviates our moral education from a human being and his life as a whole, and even farther from morality. The author believes that this is the deeper reason of disappointing actual effect of today's moral education. The source of the problem lies not only in moral education in its own right, but also in an era in which technology invades and exploits all. Closing the door leading to the soul, our education loses its way on account of the alienation and blindness to life, which departs moral education from its origin. The toehold of discussion in this paper is to call for our moral education walking out of the pattern which is important and restrictive to life but is still not human-based and opposite to human life in order to go back to human life. The paper puts much emphasis on the life awareness and life value to transform our moral education from being society-based to life-based; meanwhile, the paper establishes the life-based concept of moral education and consequently makes the moral education serve for the society and for the whole mankind, on the basis of successful experiences and the human-based principle. By the appealing to the transformation of moral education pattern, the author focuses on the realization of the trinity of moral education, namely, the fuse of politics-based, society-based and life-based, centralizing the theory and practice of moral education. Thus it improves the actual effect, really follows the principle of life, and promotes the healthy and harmonious development in human society through and for life.This paper concentrates on the interrelationship between individuals and moral education. Under the global background of social development and transformation of values and living forms, we hope to highlight more perspectives of modern moral education and bring the focus onto further stages and more broaden history and reality.Based the book explores the philosophy, especially the Marxist philosophy, to seek out the solid theoretical bases for the theory and practice of the ethnical education, and makes great efforts to have a good command of the education about human and human life. Then on the general examination of relationships between life and moral, individual and moral education respectively, this paper first makes a further exploration on humane basis of moral education and its meaning and value. Thirdly, by the pursuit of the western and Chinese researches on morality and wisdom and comparative studies on moral education, we try to explore the essence of moral education in both theory and practice. Fourthly, through looking back on the Chinese traditional education in ethics and examining closely on the accumulation of the problems, the difficult positions and the challenges that appear in the contemporary Chinese ethnical educations, the book clarifies the historical logic of the contemporary ethnical education in sex in China, brings to light the concealment and the breakthrough of the problem of human life, pointing out that it is necessity of reality and history to stress the life-based concept of moral education and to realize the transformation of moral education attitude. In the fifth part, based on the feasibility analysis of the transformation of the contemporary ethnical education, the book explores the concept of life and looks forward to the prospects, pointing out that one should respect, improve and perfect his life. The moral education, basing on the human life, aims at the life's eventual development in an all-round way, and pursues the sustainable development, which not only means that we are heading toward the inner harmony of the ethnical education, but also means our ideals of ethnical education.