University Humanities. Issue 1

Author: Xia Zhongyi
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: This book is a follow-up project to the "University Humanities Reader," with the same purpose of disseminating the universal values of human civilization's development, exploring the rich connotations of the humanistic spirit, enriching the humanistic sentiments of contemporary Chinese people, revitalizing the hall of humanistic culture, and inspiring college students to achieve "spiritual adulthood." The pursuit of "humanities renewing daily" is the goal of this book and also the aspiration of contemporary Chinese people. The burden is heavy, and we hope that the wise will help to achieve it. Humanistic culture is a culture of self-reflection. Humanistic care reflects a high sense of cultural mission. The humanistic spirit points to a human ideal system centered on truth, goodness, and beauty, which is the core connotation of "what it means to be human." Humanistic education is the "usefulness of the useless," because its purpose is to promote the complete independence and self-perfection of humans as life and spiritual subjects. It delves deeply and broadly into the great questions of "how to be a person" and "what kind of person to be." The status of humanistic education, in the ultimate sense, reflects the position of freedom in our hearts, the position of the meaning of life in life, and the position of life in the universe.