Exploring the View on Moral Knowledge in Lu Jie's Theory of Moral Education(PDF)
《南京师大学报》（社会科学版）[ISSN:1006-6977/CN:61-1281/TN]
- Issue:
- 2022年05期
- Page:
- 35-43
- Research Field:
- 教育学研究
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- Title:
- Exploring the View on Moral Knowledge in Lu Jie's Theory of Moral Education
- Author(s):
- ZHANG Zhengjiang
- Keywords:
- Lu Jie; intellectualization of moral education; moral knowledge; practical moral knowledge; rational morality
- PACS:
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- Abstract:
- Despite her severe criticism of the externalization of education（i.e., overemphasizing the instrumental rationality of education）and the intellectualization of moral education（i.e., turning moral education into a knowledge-oriented process), Professor Lu Jie never moved from the extreme of the intellectualization of moral education to the other extreme of the total negation of moral knowledge. Instead, she dialectically realized that moral knowledge should return to its position of the means from being regarded as the end, for life is the real end of moral education. In Lu's theory, morality can be divided into customary morality and rational morality. The cultivation of the customary morality does not require moral knowledge as its guide, while the cultivation of rational morality needs the guidance of moral knowledge. There are two types of moral knowledge: the first is theoretical moral knowledge, and it is hard for it to guide the construction of life; the second is practical moral knowledge, which belongs to the hermeneutic category of epistemic knowledge and contains elements of cognition, understanding, emotion and belief, and can guide moral behavior and the construction of life. Practical moral knowledge is individual in nature and needs to be expanded through dialogue and communication. The learning of moral knowledge should take place in the teaching process of living moral education courses, i.e., in the process of noticing, reflection, and construction. In teaching, teachers should also try to elevate practical moral knowledge to moral truth; guide students to understand the nature, laws, and meaning of morality; and help them achieve moral liberation and moral freedom.
Last Update: 2022-10-25