试论传统儒家道德教育思想的当代价值

On Present Value of Confucianism in Moral Education

自孔子以来的儒家先贤们都非常重视道德教育问题,以孔子、孟子、荀子为代表人物,确立了儒家以仁为中心、以促进个体德性人格的养成和现实伦理秩序的完善为旨归的道德教育思想体系;历代儒家思想家继承和发展了传统道德教育思想,使之不断趋于完善,对当时和后世都产生了极其深远的理论影响和借鉴意义,就当前社会而言也同样有着不可低估的现实价值。尤其在道德教育内容、教育原则和方法等方面,在新时期,进行反思、批判和继承,显得十分必要。

All the early Confucianists of virtue had been paying much attention to issues of moral education. They established a system of moral education which focused on kindness and aimed to promote the acquirement of individual virtues and improvement of moral principles. The following Confucian thinkers inherited and developed the traditional ideas of moral education and made them quite influential and significant. The Confucianism still has enormous value nowadays.