From Idealism to Empiricism ——On the Modern Turning Value Aims in Traditional Education

The ethical education tradition was based on the consanguineous patriarchal clan system agricultural civilization. And it has been revolving around the Confucian culture. As a result, it has strong rooted thinking pattern in the process of modernity. In the course of stepping into the market economy and democratic legal construction, we must introspect the moral idealism, but cannot fall into moral nihilism. We should neither be conservative nor radical. To ponder over the ethical value problems we are faced in contemporary China, we should have dialectical minds that exceed efficacy and interest.