Author(s)

Wenshui Jiang

Corresponding Author

Wenshui Jiang

ABSTRACT

Confucius was a great thinker, educator and politician in ancient China. Confucius' thought of ruling by virtue is deeply rooted in the soil of Chinese civilization, which is very local and available and has congenital advantages. Under the condition of socialist market economy, the rapid economic development has brought a lot of convenience to people's lives, but it has also produced many social and moral problems. The influence of economic globalization, the impact of foreign cultures, and the contradictions in the social transition period have brought about diversified development in the ideological field, which has made China's moral construction face more severe challenges. As builders and successors of China's future society, university students' moral quality directly affects the overall moral development of China society. This article attempts to analyze the existing situation of university students' ideological and moral education in the new era from the pre-Qin Confucius' thought of benevolence, in order to seek the enlightenment and reference significance of Confucius' thought of ruling by virtue for university students' ideological and moral education.

KEYWORDS

Benevolence thought, Moral education, Diversification