The Analysis On The Ethical Spirits In Higher Education

Education is a kind of activity of training people and self -development for the continuation of the society. It is a kind of love dedicated by elders for the sake of the next generation's happiness.Education itself is a symbol of love and responsibility, therefore the nature of it is "morality".However, Chinese higher education, in a period of social transition and facing a lot of ethical dilemma, holds more and more researchers' attention as well. It is necessary and essential to conduct a systematic ethical analysis to the higher education in present China.We start with the analysis of ethical dilemma and challenge of higher education in present china in the light of analyses such as ethics, education, education pathology and sociology. We adopt the methods of interpretation analysis, literature analysis, comparative analysis, history analysis, etc. On the one hand, we elaborate the historical development of ethic and morality vertically; on the other hand, we analyze the status of the higher education in present china horizontally from three core range of educational ethnics, naming, humanism, rationality and justice. It is hoped that this paper nails down the direction of development of higher education which existing on a transition period of society and morality and seek for the way of enhancing its moral way.This paper is divided into five parts: the first part is introduction. We introduce the theoretical and practical significance of this paper through analyzing the inevitability and necessity of the ethical research in higher education. We emphasize on the relative researches both at home and abroad and make a detailed study of them.Part two is the historical development of moral education. In accordance with Marxism on the division of human existence, we investigate the stage characteristics of the development of education ethical mentality from historical perspective, that is dependence to human and slaves education; dependence to substance and the commercialization of education; the independent existence of human, and three stages of individuation education. We conduct deep analysis respectively.In the third part we discuss the ethical challenge faced by higher education in present China. In the light of actual conditions, this part mainly includes the moral challenge of higher education caused by market economy and social imbalance.Part four is the key of this paper, focusing on three main ethic categories of morality in high education containing humanism, rationality, and justice. Integrating the relative theory abroad, we analyze the ethical issues of higher education in preset China completely; meanwhile we expound our point of view.Part five is the conclusion, and makes a further explanation for the main topic in the present study.