Confucian Mind Cultivation Deals On Contemporary Moral Education

Confucian culture theory of mind and natural instincts is marrow and kernel of Confucian moral education, which is based on the early antiquity humanism of Chinese. It have established and deepened Chinese humanism tradition. It indicate that Chinese antiquity moral education has paid great attention to human itself, and affirmed the importance of human抯 consciousness. The special Confucian moral education and the abundant means of self-cultivation are based on Confucian culture theory of mind and natural instincts, which have many excellent ideas to today抯 moral education, and is worth studying and inheriting by modr~n Chinese.There are three parts in the thesis. In the First part. the theory basis, the ~connotation of mind and natural instincts, the course rif th~~ development, and the characteristic of the theory are studied in order to understand Confucian culture theory of mind and natural instincts conIpIetr~y ~nd systemically. The theory is based upon antiquity humanism ~f 2抜inese and Confucian idea of moral. The mind means subject consciou..~ecs. 憂iverse. mentality dnd moral. Four kinds of natural instincts exist, which is that natural instincts is good, natural instincts is bad, natural liistinct~ is both good and bad, natural instincts is neither good nor bad. The development of the theory has passed through three periods, which is congenital theory, dipartite theory. arid ontologyn. Characteristics of the theory are the thought model regarding mind and natural instincts as ontology, self-exceeding in one抯 mind, the combination of physiology, mentality and moral organically, and internal-cultivation and external-cultivation being parts of an organic whole.In the second part, the value of Confucian culture theory of mind and natural instincts in antiquity抯 moral education is studied. The first, external moral education is based on mind and natural instincts. Different kinds of knowledge of natural instincts form different means of moral education. Confucian moral education is based on the special characteristics of students?mentality, which lie in teaching students in accordance of their aptitudes, inspiring students with emotion, moralizing students by enlightenment. The second, Confucian self-cultivation is dependent on mind2and natural instincts. The course of self-cultivation is just the course of mind and natural instincts cultivation, which is the research conclusion of the following parts: marking up one抯 mind, persevering, preserving one抯 health, continence, self-improve, self-examine, sincerity, being cautious while being alone.Through studying the two parts above, the valuable ideas have been extracted from Confucian culture theory of mind and natural instincts. Today, the practice of moral education still has many problems. Chinese people should benefit from Confucian marrow to get rid of these problems. I have four suggestions. First, moral education should aim at improving students?morality at last. Second, self-education should seek the cause in oneself instead of somebody else. Third, moral education should be based on the culture of the mind and mentality. Finally, the premise of moral belief is students?moral emotion and perseverance.