The Virtue Education View Of Communitarianism And Its Enlightenment On The Moral Education Of University Students

Communitarianism gradually became a distinguished school in the debate with the Liberalism in the latter half of the 20 th century. This master’s thesis expound that, the theoretical cornerstone of Communitarianism is “Community Noumenon” and the value orientation of Communitarianism is “Common Good”, both of them make up theoretical prospect of Communitarianism. Communitarianism improves and perfects its theoretical connotation constantly via the controversy with Liberalism. The view of virtue is the one of core ideas of Communitarianism. As the mainstream ideology, Liberalism exposed insurmountable moral problems frequently in western society, such as the prevailing of individualism, the slipping of moral standards and the fading of virtue tradition. On this basis, the communitarian proposes that restore civil virtue.The origin of virtue education of Communitarianism could trace back to ancient Greece in earlier times. Socrates proposed that virtue was knowledge, so virtue can be taught. As Communitarianism representative, Alasdair MacIntyre deems that virtue is a kind of acquired human quality. The virtue Education of Communitarianism takes holism and the public good as philosophical foundation. In order to recover the comprehension of good, it inherited and developed the classical Aristotle virtue. Bringing up individual virtue is the educational objective of virtue Education of Communitarianism. The national community plays a fundamental role in the process of implementation of virtue education. The way to realize the virtue education of Communitarianism is to encourage the citizen put into community practice positively.In our country, as the reform and the practice of the open-door policy getting deeper, the moral problems of university students is becoming more and more evident in the society. The phenomena that consciousness of responsibility failed become increasingly intense.By means of the analysis of moral education current situation of university students in China, we could take advantage of virtue education of Communitarianism to bring some enlightenment for the moral education of university students.