"Benevolence without knowing is love without leaving; Knowing without mercy is knowing without doing it. Therefore, the benevolent loves others, and the wise eliminate their harm. " It can be seen here that Dong Zhongshu's unity of benevolence and wisdom is based on benevolence, with wisdom as a tool, and wisdom is subordinate to benevolence, and its role is benevolence. Dialectically treat the dialectical relationship between moral education and intellectual education.

At present, the development of science and technology is changing with each passing day, and technical disciplines are constantly emerging. It is an indisputable fact that humanistic education is weakened and intellectual education is valued over moral education. While science and technology bring great benefits and comfort to mankind, they also bring great disasters and threats to mankind due to inhuman use, and various social problems and crises in the field of human spirit are increasingly prominent. All these warn us that we must change the abnormal education that has long been seriously biased towards science and neglected humanities. Therefore, contemporary moral education construction should attach importance to humanistic spirit, correctly handle the contradiction between humanistic education and scientific education, and pay attention to the overall improvement of people's comprehensive quality. If we exclude the feudal essence of benevolence and wisdom, Dong Zhongshu's thought of the unity of morality and wisdom still has reference significance for our moral education today.

Dong Zhongshu was a famous thinker and educator in the Western Han Dynasty. His cultural and educational policy of "ousting a hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone" transformed pre-Qin Confucianism into neo-Confucianism in the Han Dynasty, which had a far-reaching impact on China's feudal social education and ideological culture. As far as his educational thought is concerned, its core is moral education.

Starting from the theoretical basis of moral education-the theory of three natures of sex, he creatively set the content of moral education and put forward insightful views on the methods of moral education. Its rich theory still has important reference significance for our moral education today.

References:

Dong Zhongshu's Moral Education Thought and Its Modern Significance

Author: Jiang Bichun hits: update date: 2006- 10-27

(Department of Philosophy, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234)