Xunzi's Enlightenment Thought And Its Enlightenment To Ideological And Political Education

As a great materialist thinker in the pre Qin period,Xunzi was another outstanding representative of the Confucian school after Confucius and Meng Zi.Xunzi's enlightenment thought is a re deconstruction of traditional value system and belief system in pre Qin Dynasty.Facing the actual situation of social unrest,Xunzi inherited Confucius and Meng Zi's enlightenment thought on the one hand,and on the other hand,it fully absorbed the thought of the pre Qin times and all the families,and opened up its unique enlightenment thought system.Xunzi's enlightenment thought is an important branch of Confucian enlightenment thought,and also a basic norm followed by Chinese ancient social life.Xunzi's enlightenment thought not only helps to strengthen individual moral self-discipline and moral cultivation,but also helps maintain social harmony and stability.Modern ideological and political education urgently needs to draw human resources from the excellent traditional culture of our country,so as to provide valuable reference for the function value of modern ideological and political education.Traditional moral education is fundamentally different from modern ideological and political education,but also closely related.We can make a creative transformation of the objectives,methods and contents of traditional moral education,so as to absorb and learn from the resources that conform to the requirements of the times,and to provide a certain theoretical reference for modern ideological and political education.Xunzi's enlightenment thought focuses on cultivating noble moral personality and improving people's ideological and moral cultivation.This is consistent with our goal of Ideological and political education today.Xunzi's enlightenment thought is based on the "evil human nature" and "," through the theoretical explanation,that change humanity by man-made "essence of education.In the " evil nature " and " group and the theory of speculative basis,advocated by the self-cultivation and external rules to guide education method of a body in the " good " virtue,explains the function and purpose of education in the Xunzi in real social life.Xunzi is the ultimate goal of education through the "guide of humanity" to build a harmonious and orderly society "etiquette".In Xunzi's view,education is the "etiquette" service.As a unique carrier of Xunzi's thought of enlightenment,"etiquette" is an important part of Chinese traditional culture."Etiquette" is not only an important standard for the cultivation of individual moral personality,but also an important means to standardize the social order.The essence of Xunzi "is a process to change humanity by man-made" "ceremony" as the core,guide people to be good.Xunzi's enlightenment thoughts centering on the "ceremony" of this core,"ritual" and "music" and "etiquette" education as the main content,highlighting the characteristics of Xunzi's enlightenment thoughts on moral education.The starting point and foothold of modern ideological and political education are all human beings.If we give full play to the subjectivity of people,we can finally highlight the humanistic value of Ideological and political education.Xunzi's enlightenmentl thought is essentially to serve the interests of the feudal ruling class,but the respect and recognition of the subjectivity and subjective consciousness of the human being can still provide important theoretical and practical guidance for modern ideological and political education to promote the all-round development of people.Paying attention to human's subjective consciousness contains a kind of enlightenment connotation.The essence of Xunzi's "enlightenment" is to realize the value of the individual himself through the way of internal and external cultivation,so that people can truly become human beings.Xunzi's enlightenment thought contains rich resources of methodology of Ideological and political education.Xunzi's various methods of education to achieve his purpose of enlightenment is an important part of Xunzi's practice of enlightenment.Xunzi thought that only through the comprehensive application of "environmental smelting"," teaching by his own example","the combination of rites and music"," law and discipline rite be used together" can achieve the purpose of bringing up the masses and realizing the socialization of the individual.Therefore,the function value of modern ideological and political education needs not only to dig into the rich ideological and moral resources contained in Xunzi's enlightenment thought,but also to draw on the various methods and basic rules used by Xunzi's teaching practice.Putting the main contents and methods of Xunzi's enlightenment to the modernistic transformation under the conditions of promoting the development of modern ideological and political education can not only clarify the value orientation of Xunzi's enlightenment thought in the moral construction of contemporary society,but also highlight the importance value.of Xunzi's enlightenment thought in the practice of contemporary moral education and the rule of law education.In accordance with the principles of modern ideological and political education,the application of the content and methods of Xunzi's enlightenment thought to modern ideological and political education in the practice of modern ideological and political education can not only improve the effectiveness of Ideological and political education,but also strengthen the integration of Ideological and political education and traditional culture.It has positive reference meaning and realistic enlightenment for our current ideological and moral system construction and the construction of modern ideological and political education methodology system.