指向幸福的道德教育

Moral Education Towards Happiness

由于人们长期以来对工具理性的过度重视,致使意义缺失、精神危机等问题在现代日益凸显。这意味着人们面临着一个切身的问题——幸福感在下降。关于幸福如何与道德教育有关,又如何成为道德教育目标指向的疑问,本文试图从道德与幸福的关系以及教育与幸福的关系之探讨中引出道德教育的幸福本位。道德不仅仅是一种理性的支配,它更依赖于道德情感的产生,这种情感使道德本身有着朝向幸福的意蕴。幸福作为每个人心中最高的价值追求,也理应是教育所要引导的方向。教育同时也只有从幸福的角度着手才能够培养更完满的人性。一切的道德和教育都是为了创造更美好的生活,因此道德教育从本质上来说也蕴含着教人幸福的意义。

Due to the long-lasting adherence to rational supremacy, the lack of meaning and the spmtu- al crisis are increasingly emerging, and people＇s happiness is declining. How does happiness related to moral education, and how does happiness become the goal of moral education？ This article seeks to bring about the happiness in the moral education from the discussions of the relationship between morality and happiness and the relationship between education and happiness. Morality is not just dominated by ration ality. It is more dependent on emotion and feeling, by which this feeling makes moral retain a sense of hap piness. Happiness, as the highest value of each person to pursue, should be the direction of education. At the same time, education is helpful to cultivate a sound human nature from the perspective of happiness. Both morality and education serve for a better life. Therefore, moral education essentially teaches people happiness.