Virtues Setting With Aesthetics

Nowadays, more and more attention has been paid to the ideological and political education of college students. Under the complex circumstances at home and abroad, a pragmatic and efficient means to strengthen the ideological and political education of college students is urgent. Due to the characteristics of aesthetic education, such as non-substitutability, consistency of ultimate goals and so on, it can be applied to the ideological and political education efficiently. Aesthetic education is a novel, attractive, energetic education principle, which takes advantage of the super-utilitarian and Sentiment Education, breaking new ground in ideological and political education. Based on the Aesthetic Theory, Aesthetic Education has highly valued in both the academic circle and the eyes of Mass Culture. The structure of the paper is described as follows:The paper starts with the concepts of aesthetic education and the ideological and political education. Then expounds the yielding, definitions and substance of the aesthetic education, the ideological and political education and the key factors of the paper.Based on the clear explanation of the key factors related, the paper analyzes the current situation of the ideological and political education of college students. The analysis mainly focuses on the reform, key channels, and the existing problem of the ideological and political education of current college students. The paper then emphasizes the two stages and significant features of ideological and political education reform, and the main methods employed as well.With the current situation of the ideological and political education of college students, the paper describes the necessity and the importance of aesthetic education in the ideological and political education of college students. The paper then mainly expounds from the three aspects as follows: the non-substitutability of aesthetic education in the ideological and political education, the ultimate goals towards the ideological and political education and the important impact of aesthetic education on the ideological and political education. By putting forward the high effects of aesthetic education on the ideological and political education, the paper confirms that the aesthetic education can be widely used as a ideological and political education means.On the basis of the three chapters above, the author points out that virtues setting with aesthetics is regarded as a countermeasure to strengthen the ideological and political education of college students. The author introduces the means to solve the virtues setting with aesthetics in this conclusion part. Firstly, the researchers should change the ideas ideologically. Secondly, they should grasp three principles. Last but not the least, the research focuses on the campus culture, ideological workers, and the contents, forms of the ideological and political education. The paper also shows clearly the orientation for virtues setting with aesthetics.