Yu Yuan

Moral education within the family serves as a cornerstone for fostering the ethical and personal development of children, providing them with a solid foundation for future growth. This research examines the current status, challenges, and strategies related to family-based moral education, particularly in rural contexts. The findings underscore the vital role that parents play as primary moral educators, while also acknowledging that their effectiveness is bolstered by comprehensive support from society, policy interventions, and the integration of modern technologies. Key issues identified include insufficient access to educational resources, the need for a greater emphasis on mental health education, and the lack of structured collaboration among families, schools, and communities. This study proposes a series of recommendations to address these gaps, such as enhancing governmental policy support, fostering social and community-based educational initiatives, leveraging media platforms for educational dissemination, and promoting tripartite partnerships among families, schools, and society. The research underscores the importance of personalized educational approaches that cater to children’s unique needs and characteristics. These strategies aim to strengthen the practice of moral education within families, ensuring that children grow in an environment that supports their moral, emotional, and intellectual development.

Wang Yang-ming is the most prominent philosopher in Ming Dynasty. His system of Hsin Hsüeh, which assembles the characteristics of his contemporary Neo-Confucianists, has rich connotations and a far-reaching influence. Le is a substantial part in the system. His philosophical dialectic blends with his hardship and ‘Le’, which is the further development of ‘Le’ from ancient Confucianists, and affected by his family’s inherence and is both the comprehension of sufferings and the concentration of his living wisdom. Wang Yang-ming said clearly that ‘Le’ is the noumenon of Hsin, thinking ‘Le’ is a natural state, which presents itself during living experiences as a reality. As a noumenon, it determines the state of ‘Le’ as a should-be existence. Thus, ‘Le’ is identical with noumenon, effect and spiritual realm, with the starting point of life, the pursuit of life and the final goal of life. These three dimensions is the basic theoretical frame to the study of ‘Le’. They are three dimensions in logic, but are homoousia in existence. ‘Le’ becomes the expression of Wang’s ideal state, which is the ultimate state with the experience of ‘Le’ as noumenon, ‘Le’ as effect.