中国语境下“立德树人”思想发展管窥

A Brief Review on the Evolution of the Thought of "Fostering Virtue and Nurturing People" Under Chinese Context

"立德树人"思想的历史进路离不开对不同历史时期不同学术流派的政治思想、伦理思想和教育思想的研究和借鉴。研究"立德树人"思想,必须根据社会有机整体的发展性、连续性的视角去审视中国语境下"立德树人"思想漫长而绵延的形成历史。解读"德"字形义演化和"德"意流变历史演进的逻辑,实质是要通过追溯自中国古代以来的"德"存在以及演变的历史,解释中国历史上"立德树人"思想演变的历史与逻辑的必然性,还原"立德树人"在先秦、汉唐、两宋至明清、晚近等历史时期思想理论发展和理论创造的过程全貌,以历史的角度阐释"立德树人"思想不同形态所存在的历史前提和逻辑根据,以现代理性的角度审视和反思"立德树人"的伦理支点和价值取向,反映出时代精神对漫长而绵延的思想源流作出的回应与继承。

The historical evolution of the thought of 'Fostering Virtue and Nurturing People' is inseparable with the study of and the learning from political, ethical and educational thoughts in different historical periods and academic schools. To look into the thought, it is necessary to examine the long development course of it from the perspective of the developmental and continuous nature of the organic integrity of society in China. To interpret the evolution of the form and connotation of the Chinese character ' virtue ' is, in essence, to explain the pathway and the logic inevitability of the historic evolution of the thought ' Fostering Virtue and Nurturing People' by retrospecting the existence and the evolution of virtue since ancient China. In this connection, this paper has restored the whole picture of the ideological creation and development of the thought of ' Fostering Virtue and Nurturing People' from the pre-Qin period, Han and Tang Dynasties, the Two Song Dynasties and the Ming and Qing Dynasties all the way up to the recent years, elucidated the historical premises and logic basis of different forms of the thought from a historical perspective. The ethical fulcrum and value orientation of the thought of 'Fostering Virtue and Nurturing People' have also been examined and reflected from the spectrum of modern rationality, demonstrating the response to and the inheritance of the long and continuous ideological origin by the spirit of the time.