Learning to be human is a highly important concern in Confucian philosophy. This paper is intended to provide a special perspective on this theme through an attempt to reinterpret Mengzi＇s views on the heart-mind （x...Learning to be human is a highly important concern in Confucian philosophy. This paper is intended to provide a special perspective on this theme through an attempt to reinterpret Mengzi＇s views on the heart-mind （xin 心） as ＂learning to be human＂ and to reconstruct these views into a multi-staged process of moral development. Through an intentional interpretation of various arguments advanced by Mengzi, we seek to justify that his views on the heart-mind and moral virtues can be seen as a learning process and that he subjects the inborn beginnings of goodness to a delicate development before they can actually qualify a person as fully human. Having examined the three dimensions of Mengzi＇s learning, the intellectual, the practical and the spiritual, we will come to the conclusion that whether innate or a posteriori, initial good senses and knowledge require a moral and spiritual process of learning to develop which is, to Mengzi, crucial for one to become a genuine human being.展开更多
THE China Research Center for Juveniles, the News Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences(CASS)and the Chinese Juvenile Newspaper organized a study on the influence of the media on children’s mor...THE China Research Center for Juveniles, the News Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences(CASS)and the Chinese Juvenile Newspaper organized a study on the influence of the media on children’s moral development. The report展开更多
文摘Learning to be human is a highly important concern in Confucian philosophy. This paper is intended to provide a special perspective on this theme through an attempt to reinterpret Mengzi＇s views on the heart-mind （xin 心） as ＂learning to be human＂ and to reconstruct these views into a multi-staged process of moral development. Through an intentional interpretation of various arguments advanced by Mengzi, we seek to justify that his views on the heart-mind and moral virtues can be seen as a learning process and that he subjects the inborn beginnings of goodness to a delicate development before they can actually qualify a person as fully human. Having examined the three dimensions of Mengzi＇s learning, the intellectual, the practical and the spiritual, we will come to the conclusion that whether innate or a posteriori, initial good senses and knowledge require a moral and spiritual process of learning to develop which is, to Mengzi, crucial for one to become a genuine human being.
文摘THE China Research Center for Juveniles, the News Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences(CASS)and the Chinese Juvenile Newspaper organized a study on the influence of the media on children’s moral development. The report
