Open AccessOn the Ancient Educational Thought under the Opposite View of Human Nature of the Pre-Qin Scholars—— On its Value to Contemporary Higher Education
Author(s) -
Zhichao Zhao
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of contemporary educational research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2208-8474
pISSN - 2208-8466
DOI - 10.26689/jcer.v4i4.1186
Subject(s) - taoism , immutability , malleability , value (mathematics) , epistemology , personality , ideal (ethics) , root (linguistics) , sociology , social science , environmental ethics , psychology , philosophy , social psychology , buddhism , mathematics , computer science , encryption , statistics , linguistics , theology , computer security , ciphertext , blockchain , operating system
The pre-qin Scholars’ views on human nature could be divided into two types: malleable human nature and immalleable human nature. Based on the theory of the malleability of human nature, Confucianism formed an educational concept aiming at shaping the ideal personality of Confucianism. The theory of immutability of human nature has become the root of the two distinct educational concepts of Taoism, which advocates letting nature take its course, and Taoism, which aims at reforming human behavior. Either idea has its reasonableness. All of these have a very important impact on our higher education today.