The Enlightenment of “Gentleman is not the implement” to Civic Education in China

Abstract

Based on the "gentleman"(jun zi) in the Analects of Confucius "gentleman personality" identity and citizenship status discrimination as object identity of citizen education as the foundation, connotation will be "no" and the integration of value orientation of contemporary Chinese citizens as civil education goal, from the personality of Chinese classical culture building in the essence of contemporary Chinese citizen's spirit and value orientation, in order to provide enlightenment on contemporary Chinese citizen education. Keywords—gentleman is not implement; citizenship; value orientation; Civic education Citizenship and civic education originated from the west, and the development in China needs to be based on China's cultural soil. Therefore, the implementation of civic education in China should absorb the cultural essence which is contained in Chinese traditional culture and helpful to contemporary civic education. The fundamental idea of the Gentleman is not the implement is to discover the meaning of the existence of members of society not only as a useful means to an end. This idea is of fundamental guiding significance to the implementation of civic education.