Traditional Confucian Ethics Training, And The Character Of Contemporary College Students

We must take efficient actions to deal with the problem of traditions and modernizations in the education of undergraduates' character forming. The moral concept of the Confucianists is one part of the content in Chinese traditional ethics. Carrying on and carrying forward the essence and quintessence of it is an important content of undergraduates' moral education nowadays.This essay, mainly focus on the basis of the deeply research on the moral concept of the Confucianists resources; thinks that these five concepts: the favorable view of common loyalty, justice and profit, vigor, kind-heartedness and golden mean are the very things that we should exploit, transform and learn from.The view of common loyalty of traditional Confucianists emphasize that our final view is to building an all-round fair society, and also to be loyal, as some of the experts claimed. This view of the Confucianists helps to push and develop the social responsibilities of the common people, which mean to serve the people heart and soul. This is the essence of our ethnicity and the right thing we should learn and develop. To carry on and develop this concept, we must refresh it with the content of the new times. In our practical moral education, teachings in the view of common loyalty should also include the two different sides. Nowadays, we should first start with the basic things that connect with the character forming and teaching them the concept of Socialism and Communalism gradually, when the ethical quality of the undergraduates is still not so good.As one of the basic problems of moral philosophy, the view of justice and profit is one central idea in the traditional moral concept of the Confucianists. It explains that the gentleman pays the attention on justice while the person of low position on the profit; emphasize that we should value justice more than the profit. We must learn the quintessence and abandon the waste matter, to build up a quite rational mode of justice and profit in modern times, when we are try to take advantages of the optimistic aspects of it. We must adhere to the principle of taking justice instead of the profit, and guide the undergraduates to establish the correct values in these educations."It do good for, the gentleman will make unremitting efforts to improve oneself, the old Chinese saying says. The Confucianists up-hold the spirit of being vigorous and promising, as well as trying to improve oneself, which is the inner Inherent motive force of China' s successive progress in history. We must insist to learn more, ask more, and think more, analysis more in our social life and in our work as to make progresses day by day by day by day. These are the important contents in the moral education for undergraduates.As a central ethics idea of the Confucianists, the view of kind-heartedness is one of the very precious things that modern scholars agree on. As a gentleman, you should depend on try to obtain good ethics. In Confucianism, the view of kind-heartedness, which shows its emphasis on doctrines of the people still, has it accept aspects.We should make full use of the spirit of kind-heartedness in the moral education for undergraduates, so as to help forming the spirit of loving the people in their minds.The views of golden mean, and accepting with difference, which could be of help to the promotion of public ethics, are the height of methodology and epistemology in ancient Chinese philosophy. Grasping the golden mean is grasping the essence of development and the main melody of the society. We must also think high of it, in order to keep the balance between the undergraduates' body and spirit.These five concepts on ethics are the important thought resources we can use in the moral education for undergraduates. We must make use of it with innovation and reform, so as to be used in ideological and political educations in universities.