当代伦理学教育的三个误区

道德的形成,不是自上而下的单纯论证和教化;如果离开了民众的生活实践,道德将会枯竭和衰亡.但是,在当代的伦理学教育中却存在三个严重的误区:一是道德规范外在化,二是道德目标空泛化,三是道德传播抽象化.当代伦理学教育之所以陷入上述误区分别与中国传统伦理思想中的天道论、性善论、教化论有关.为此,当代伦理学教育必须立足于情感,扎根于现实,面向现实道德问题进行深入地研究,这样才能达到解决人生的困惑,切实指导生活的目的.

A Probe into the Three Misunderstandings in the Contemporary Ethical Education

In the contemporary,ethics is increasingly becoming the popular scolarship,but there are very serious misunderstandings in the ethical education.These misunderstandings can be summarized as the externalization of tne moral rule,the emptiness of the moral goal and the abstraction of the moral education.Observing from the historal view,we can find that the reason that the contemporary ethical education fall into above misunderstandings is separately related to the theory of Tian Dao,the theory of good nature and the theory of moral instruction in the chinese traditional ethical thought.