“精神动力”范畴分析

On Category of Spiritual Motives

精神动力是思想政治教育学的基本范畴。这一范畴经历了发展演变的历史过程。精神动力的内涵是:精神动力是精神因素对人从事的一切活动及社会发展产生的精神推动力量。精神动力本质上是指导和推动人们改造客观世界与改造主观世界的精神能动作用的集中表现。精神动力具有诸多不同于物质动力的特点。分析精神动力范畴,探讨和把握精神动力的内涵、本质与特点,是深化精神动力基础理论研究、促进精神动力实际开发的需要。

The spiritual motive is the fundamental category of ideological and political education, which has experienced a historic development. The connotation of the spiritual motive is as follows: The spiritual motive is the spiritual pushing force motivated by spiritual factors from different kinds of human's activities and social development. The essence of the spiritual motive is the focus reflection of the spiritual active function guiding and pushing the remould of human's objective world and subjective world. The spiritual motive is possessed with a lot of characteristics different from other material motives. Therefore, analyzing, discussing and grasping the category and connotation of the spiritual motive makes up the needs of deepening the fundamental and theoretical research on the spiritual motive and promoting the practical exploration of the spiritual motive.