| The procedure of human's survival and development is actually the procedure of studying. As the cultivation of personality during man's development procedure, what moral studying should study is not the truth of material, but the truth of human, not the truth for human to be, but the truth for human ought to be. Besides attaining abstract moral knowledge by recognition, moral studying requires the understanding between people, the intercourse between people, the recognition and self-reflection of life and the experience and understanding of the value of life based on the life experience. However, the moral studying to master moral knowledge is still the mainstream of moral practice in China. It jugulates man's instinct, sensibility and spiritualism because it over-emphasizes the remembrance, rehearsal and understanding of moral knowledge. The interior soul of the learner isn't involved. So it isn't the way of moral studying, "the moral knowledge without experience is the mummy of concept". Experience is the activity of recognition and understanding with emotion. It is the combination of recept, thinking and action. It changes the moral into a part of the spirit for the main body. It requires the space directly related to the main body. Life is actually the natural, direct and effective space. Man lives in experience and lives through experience. The purpose of the writer's bringing forward the moral studying of life is not to abandon the moral studying of recognition but to realize the surpassing of it. The moral studying of life is a more reasonable concept advanced by the writer according to the reality. Therationality lies in the fact that it good for man's complete and free development.
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