道德想象:一种新的德育方法论

Morality imagination:a new methodology for moral education

想象作为一种方法论,是人对道德与真理的沉思和探险,是道德教化赖以实现的心灵基础与内在根基。想象不是道德教育的具体方法,而是道德教育的世界观和方法论。作为一种教化哲学,道德想象使我们的道德教育价值观和思维方式发生了改变,并提示了另一种教化传统和逻辑。在这一视野中,那种过于实在、过分依赖于生活实践的教化信念受到了质疑。在新的教化哲学之下,道德教育获得了更为广阔的伦理资源和教育视野,它使人们有可能将道德想象和艺术审美引入教化实践之中。而更为重要的是,它让我们看到在道德教育中那种超越性的高级生活对于提升人的精神世界所具有的价值,使我们能够拓展对道德规范的认识和理解,进而有可能借助道德想象的力量,构建一种由理想信念通往生活实践的教化逻辑。

As a kind of methodology, imagination is people＇s meditation and exploration into morality and truth, the soul basis and inner foundation on which moral enlightenment depends. Imagination is not a concrete method for moral education but the world outlook and methodology of moral education. Being a kind of enlightenment philosophy, morality imagi nation causes the values and thinking mode of moral education to change and inspires us with another enlightenment tradition and logics. From this perspective, that kind of enlightenment faith which is too practical and heavily reliant on living practice is put into doubt. With the new enlightenment philosophy, moral education has gained broader moral resources and educational perspectives, enabling people to introduce moral imagination and aesthetic to enlightenment practice. More importantly, it lets us view the value of transcendent advanced living in moral education on promoting human＇ s spiritual world ,and then we can use the power of morality imagination to construct a kind of enlightenment logics from ideal faith to living practice.