曾钊新学术思想述略

The Academic Thoughts of Professor Zeng Zhaoxin

曾钊新教授的学术兴趣极为广泛,其研究主要涉及人性论、道德心理学、伦理社会学、负面文化研究及教育哲学诸多领域。曾钊新教授的学术思想不仅十分丰富,而且新见迭出,取得了多方面的创造性成果,尤其是关于人性是道德的第二土壤的观点、关于时年道德与场合道德的首次阐发、关于负面文化的开创性研究、关于高科技人才必识的大智慧的论述,不仅填补了相关学术空白,在学界引起强烈反响,而且顺应了时代要求,满足了社会的客观需要,具有重要的学术价值和现实意义。

Professor Zeng Zhaoxin has never stopped his diligent exploration and innovation in academics in colleges and universities for decades.After retirement,he still keeps thinking and writing.His academic fields include the theory of human nature,moral psychology,ethical sociology,negative culture and educational philosophy.Professor Zeng believes that,fundamentally,morality arises from economic life and the economic situation of a certain society is the objective basis of morality.Morality,after final analysis,is a concrete form of social consciousness while humanity is a broad field of social consciousness.In this sense,humanity is the second leading cause or'second soil'for morality.Humanity is one of the links that connect the members of society together,and it is also the emotional bond to organize people into social relations.Morality has become a code of conduct to adjust and maintain the existing social connections by stabilizing human’s common eager and desire in the form of disciplines generally followed.Therefore,morality is the direct subordinate of humanity,and is the normative reflection of human virtues.In Chinese ethics,Professor Zeng is the first to devote to the study on moral psychology.He has established the first complete moral psychology system in China after several years of exploration.Moral psychology is a study focused on the relationship between morality and psychology,to reveal the psychological base of moral generation and development,and the psychological mechanism,process and state of moral knowledge,as well as the general rules of moral adjustment in the psychological imbalance.Moral psychology not only studies the effect of psychology on morality,but also studies the influence of moral on psychology.Moreover,it studies the interrelated relationship between morality and psychology in the above two aspects,rather than only study morality like the general ethics or like general psychology as a simple study of psychology.Professor Zeng’s The collision of soul—illusion and reality of ethical sociology,is one of the earliest monographs of ethical sociology in our country.Ethical sociology is a study on the interrelation between moral life and social operation;it explores how to make the character,virtue as the high ethical need of human’s own life,and how society realizes this kind of need through the concrete implementation,the way,the method,the step as well as the operation and so on.To understand how society advances and how society runs,it is necessary to study ethics.Therefore,there are two main tasks of ethical sociology:one is to explore how to make moral needs as a conscious need in human life,and the other is to focus on the concrete structure and operation of the social morality.Professor Zeng not only discussed the'first soil'and the'second soil'which produce morality,but also focused on the study of social soil which breeds evil:negative culture.He is a pioneer who proposed and demonstrated the concept,and edited the'Negative Culture Series'.In Professor Zeng’s view,negative culture is a kind of ideology or spiritual phenomenon which fights with positive,correct and bright social consciousness.It is the adverse accumulation and corrosion and variation of social experience.It is the negative forces and virus that affect social progress,health and harmony.Professor Zeng worked hard in the university for decades.As a philosopher,he is sensitive to the problems and excels in deep thinking.It is naturally for him to have a philosophical meditation on educational problems,which contributes to his unique philosophy of education.Professor Zeng believes that educational philosophy uses philosophy epistemology as a weapon,revealed the dialectical law of personality development and social demand,which is a kind of bidirectional relationship that human change the environment and the environment brings up human.Educational philosophy also reveals the origin and development of human knowledge and the positive significance of a community’s cultural accumulation.