Love and Children's Moral Development:An Interpretation Based on Rousseau's Emile or On Education
Love is one of the most important emotions of human beings,and it is also an important emotion related to morality.In the discussion of the relationship between love and children's moral development,Rousseau's Emile is unique and profound.Emile discusses the relationship between family love,self-love,sympathy love and children's moral development.Family love is the external force of children's moral cultivation,and mother's love is the foundation and source of family love.Self-love is the endogenous driving force of children's moral cultivation,and children's moral cultivation follows the evolutionary path from self-love to love others,from love to people who are beneficial to themselves to love people in general.When an individual's love reaches the level of"love for humanity",it means that he has obtained the virtue of"justice".Compassionate love is a key factor in the development of children's morality.Compassion can not only make altruistic correction of self-love,but also promote the formation of children's morality through the power of imagination.Rousseau's view of children's moral formation based on love is of great enlightening significance to children's moral formation education at present:children's moral cultivation can not only develop the power of love,but also face individual"self-love"instinct,and value individual experience.
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