场域、素材与情感:大学仪式的道德维度

Arena,Topics and Emotion:On the Moral Implications of University Rituals

仪式作为大学生活中独具象征性和表演性的生活景观,具有道德教育的功能,理解仪式的道德维度有利于把握其道德意蕴,发挥其道德功能。仪式生成了道德教育的场域,提供了道德教育的素材,孕育了道德教育的情感。仪式是充满德性的生活,蕴含着道德规范,营造出道德氛围,传递了道德观念,通过禁忌强化与美学升华等方式表达道德情感。

As a kind of symbolic action and performance in the university life,rituals have profound moral implications and play an important role in moral education.Rituals provide an arena,offer suitable topics and inspire intense emotion for moral education.In fact,rituals are closely related to the life of virtue,for they embody moral norms,create a moral atmosphere,communicate moral judgments,and intensify or inspire emotion by ritual taboos or aesthetics.