| The ultimate goal of education of foster fully developed man. Moral education, as an important part of modern education, is to foster people's morality, and it provides guidelines and sustainable motivation for other parts of education. There has been existing in harmony between the methods and content of moral education since long due to the simplistic methods of moral education. To bring it out of the difficult situation, the moral educationists are urged to seek a more promising way which will lead us to even more lofty goal of moral education. Aesthetic education is the this may. Aesthetics is one of the self-development ways which has led human being from savageness to civilization, from primitive society to modem society. The role of aesthetics education deserves our attention in the political thought education for the college students. The incorporation of aesthetics in moral education is both theoretically and practically important for improving the process and the result of moral education. In theory, aesthetics will broaden the horizon and enrich the content and system of university moral education. In practice, it is beneficial for fostering the students aesthetics ability, sublime personality and comprehensive quality.Aesthetics has a history of thousands of years. Generally, aesthetics consists of fostering of aesthetic perception and aesthetic judgment. It refers to the education of individuals or the society, cultivating the notion of aesthetics and the ability of appreciating and creating beauty. It implies the development of social morality under the guideline of aesthetics and it ultimately aims at the achievement of perfect personality. Essentially, it is a study of the self-beautification of mankind, and it isa study of sensibility, visualization, pleasurably, humanity, and infiltration.Aesthetic education is theoretically based on Marxist aesthetic thoughts. What is most relevant to modern aesthetics and what is most instructive in classical Marxism is the theory of the full scale development of mankind. The justification of aesthetics in practice lies in the requirement of human society development, the reformation of the present education system in China, and the fact that development of man undergoes different phases.The promotion of university moral education through aesthetics lies in the following ways. Firstly, aesthetics may induce good morality. It encourages college students to seek social ideality of mankind, to build up proper view of the world, of life, and axiology. It may help to uplift and exert personality, and hence cultivate good personality. Secondly, aesthetics may develop wisdom. It helps to develop college students' intelligence and creativity, and enrich their knowledge. Thirdly, aesthetics may foster quality taste. It helps college students maintain a balanced mentality, develop good character and behavior, and cherish the beauty of life, and form a cultured morality and upgrade their taste of life. Lastly, aesthetics may engender truth. It helps improve their ability to perceive, appreciate and create beauty, and improve their comprehensive quality.Aesthetic education can be carried out in the following ways:First, we should ensure it occupies an important position higher education, and make a compulsory course.Second, we should make full use of different materials such as the basic aesthetic principles, the beauty of the nature, of life, of art works to enrich its content.Thirdly, we should have a good command of its features, incorporating reasonin emotion, meaning in form, education in pleasure, effect an imperceptible influence on the students through different aesthetic means.Fourthly, we should make use of the different situation exploring aesthetic spaces. Apart from universities, the family and the society should also contribute to the education process.Lastly, we should train our educatiors, improve their quality, make them aesthetically conscious, enrich their aesthetic knowledge, present the student beautifu...
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