公民道德的应然逻辑:反身价值

我国的公民道德教育长于灌输应该如何生活的理由,却拙于阐述“为何应该”。公民道德的反身价值是对“为何应该”的理性思考,也是公民道德教育必须予以重视的一般原理性问题。一个能对社会产生德性影响的公民一定是一个幸福、富有责任感的公民,而这样的公民也必然需要反身价值的支撑和保护。为此,学校道德教育需突显公民道德的反身价值,以此增强公民道德对公民的内在吸引力和对社会的精神导引力。
In our country, so far the civil morality education seems to be more inclined to indoctrinate people with “we should follow the moral conventions” than to enable them to understand “why we should do so”. The reflexive value of civil morality is the rational thinking of “why we should follow moral conventions”, and it is a basic problem that civil morality education has to resolve. A person who can generate moral influence on society must be a happy and responsible man, who also needs support and protection of reflexive value. Therefore, the school moral education should highlight the reflexive value of civil morality, which can strengthen the inherent attractiveness of civil morality and the spiritual guidance of society