论休谟的“同情原则”对学校道德教育的启示

休谟对道德导源于情感的论证以及对同情的内涵的创造性解读,对学校道德教育具有重要的启示意义。目前我国学校道德教育中普遍存在着重道德知识的传授而轻道德情感培育的倾向,具体表现在道德教育的课程化、课程内容的知识化、教育方法的灌输化等方面。这种倾向的认识论根源就在于混淆了理性和道德的关系。

On Hume’s Sympathy Principle and Its Effect on College Moral Education

Hume’s argument that moral derives from emotions and his creative interpretation of the connotation of sympathy have important implications for the moral education in schools.At present,there is a common tendency which emphasizes the teaching of moral knowledge,but despises the cultivation of moral sentiments in the moral education in schools.This tendency is reflected in the moral education curriculum,knowledge-based course contents,preaching-style educational methods and so on.The ideological root of this tendency is the confused relationship between reason and morality.