良知的自然生长倾向及其教育——兼论“教育即良知生长”与“教育即生长”的异同

Natural Growth Trend and Education of Conscience? and the Difference between ^Education Means Conscience Growth” and ^Education Means Growth”

Yang Ming‘s philosophy inherited and developed the Mencius's theory of Xing Shan (i. e.，the human being?s nature is inherently good)，and expounded the natural growth trend of conscience from the two aspects： fact and value . Regarding the fact， conscience is a perennial living creature； its original form is an immature form with growth potential； and its growth process is a desirable happy journey. As for value，the natural growth trend of conscience is full of value rationality，and constitutes indispensible human being' faith. This is the conscience growth theory，responding to the moral question of why hu- man being intend to do good things. On this basis，Yang M ing formed the view that the essence of education refers to conscience growth. The theory holds that education s to let students know how to foster growth of conscience and other things by “doing right things”. This process s the unity of the being and effort，and ends and means. This means “teach students the right thingsare efforts and means， and “foster the growth of conscience and other things” are the ends and the being.