Moral Education Towards a Happy Life in the Era of Material Abundance(PDF)
《南京师大学报》（社会科学版）[ISSN:1006-6977/CN:61-1281/TN]
- Issue:
- 2023年04期
- Page:
- 52-63
- Research Field:
- 教育学研究
- Publishing date:
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- Title:
- Moral Education Towards a Happy Life in the Era of Material Abundance
- Author(s):
- YAN Hai; WANG Xue
- Keywords:
- material abundance; moral education; happiness; dignity; possible life
- PACS:
- -
- DOI:
- -
- Abstract:
- From a human perspective, morality, life, and happiness constitute an interconnected whole. Paying attention to human happiness and guiding the construction of a happy life is the fundamental mission of moral education. Material abundance provides multiple material choices for human development, laying the foundation for the possibility of a happy life. However, it also triggers such a modernity crisis as “the more abundant the material, the more impoverished the spirit”. To address this crisis, it is necessary for moral education to exert its unique educational charm and make a happy life full of moral tension. Moral education is a special form of life as well as a purposeful and intentional activity, characterized by the coexistence of reality and possibility. The process of moral education revolves around the reality and possibility of human beings. It should not only be based on the present, bridge the separation between instrumental rationality and value rationality, but also plan for the future and guard the utopia of human life between what is and what should be. Guiding the construction of a happy life, moral education should strive for harmony between the self and the external world, observing human material life. It should pursue authenticity, constructing a dignified spiritual life, and move towards transcendence, exploring a meaningful and purposeful existence. Only through this can moral education drive the realization of a harmonious vision of virtuous and prosperous living.
Last Update: 2023-08-25