荀子对儒家道德教化思想发展的理论贡献

Xunzi’s Theoretic Contributions on the Development of Confucian Thought of Moral Civilizing

荀子继承了儒家重视道德教化的传统,对道德教化问题进行了较为系统的论述。他在中国思想史上第一次明确提出并使用了"教化"这一概念,从人类社会生活的需要出发对道德教化的必要性进行了论证,提出并论证了礼法并用的道德教化方法,突出了师友在道德教教化中的作用。在儒家道德教化思想的发展和完善中,荀子做出了重要的理论贡献。

Xunzi inherited the Confucian tradition of paying attention to moral civilizing, and there was more systematic exposition on the issue of moral civilizing in his thought. He was the earliest thinker to put forth and use the concept of civilizing in China. He carried out the feasibility of moral civilizing from the human needs of social life, proposed and demonstrated the method of moral civilizing of using etiquette and law, and highlighted the role of teacher in the course of moral civilizing. Xunzi did important contributions in the development and perfection of Confucian idea of moral civilizing.