The Changing Of Meaning "Morality" In Traditional Chinese And Western Culture And Its Enlightenment To Current School Moral Education

There are still many puzzles and problems in the current school moral education. In the course of investigating and tackling them, the author holds the views that the essential reason of exiting so much problems in school moral education is that the misunderstanding for the meaning of morality". For a long time in school moral education, the meaning of morality has been dissimilated, and morality is considered as a group of external behavior norms, which are put into practice through drilling or copying in school moral education. As a result, the practice of school moral education is blurred in the maze without a clear orientation for its deviation from the proper essence. Morality has been an ancient and everlasting subject constantly pursued by both the Chinese and western philosophers in the traditional culture. Morals as a mode of human to master the world in a way of "spirit practicing" is not just an aggregate of external behavior norms. Although different nations have their different cultural tradition, they also interlinked with each other. So today in a cultural globalizing world, in which the communication and dialogue with multi-culture is extraordinarily prosperous, seeking for the wisdom spark and useful resources from exchanging of different moral cultures and ethic conceptions in tradition is becoming the common concern of research areas by Chinese and western scholars. So by combing the...