Humanistic spirit is not only the main content of spiritual civilization, but also affects the construction of material civilization. It is the core content that constitutes the cultural individuality of a nation and a region. It is an important measure to measure the degree of civilization of a nation and a region. The level of humanistic quality of citizens in a country depends to a great extent on the status and level of humanistic education in national education. ("2 1 Century Quality Education Series Textbooks-The Implication of Art", by Chen Xuguang, Renmin University of China Press)
In western languages, the word "humanistic spirit" should be humanism, which is usually translated into humanism, humanitarianism and humanitarianism. In a narrow sense, it refers to a trend of thought in the Renaissance. Its core ideas are as follows: first, caring for people, putting people first, attaching importance to people's value, and opposing theology's suppression of human nature; Second, carry forward human rationality and oppose theology's depreciation of rationality; Thirdly, it advocates the harmony between spirit and flesh, based on the pursuit of transcendental spirit of earthly life, opposes the opposition between spirit and flesh in theology, and denies earthly life with the life of heaven. Broadly speaking, it refers to a cultural tradition in Europe that began in ancient Greece. According to my understanding of this tradition, I define the basic connotation of humanistic spirit as three levels: first, humanism, which pursues human happiness and dignity, is a broad humanitarian spirit; Second, rationality, the pursuit of truth, is a broad scientific spirit; Third, transcendence, the pursuit of the meaning of life. Simply put, it is to care about people, especially their spiritual life; Respect the value of human beings, especially the value of human beings as spiritual beings. The basic meaning of humanistic spirit is to respect human values and spiritual values. (Professor Zhou's speech at the National School of Administration)
Humanistic ontology is the core of humanistic spirit. Humanistic spirit is a reflection on the value and significance of life. What is humanistic spirit and what are its characteristics? Xu Zhijian joined.
So what is human nature? What is the relationship between science and humanities? Is social science the humanities? Is literature and art humanities? In today's society, we see that not only students of science and engineering often have knowledge, but also students of humanities and social sciences, and even students of literature and art often have knowledge, art and humanities! Humanism is a dynamic concept. In a general sense, for example, China wrote in Ci Hai: "Humanism refers to various cultural phenomena in human society". As we know, culture is a symbol, value and norm shared by human beings, a nation or a group of people. Symbol is the foundation of culture, values are the core of culture, and norms, including customary norms, moral norms and legal norms, are the main contents of culture. "Various" cultural phenomena obviously include advanced and backward, science and ignorance, excellent and inferior, healthy and morbid.
Hong Bing said to Ze Ze Ze: Humanist thinking is an abstract meditation on the root. In fact, human nature ("human nature"-China has no etymological basis), its fundamental concept is to think about people from the perspective of class (human beings are considered as a group; The human race, when thinking about the foundation of human existence, will have the following transcendental questions: human nature, the origin of human beings, the relationship between man and nature, the relationship between man and God, and the relationship between people. Because it thinks about people as classes, we say that its thinking transcends specific interpersonal relationships and limited existence. "_ (Ge Hongbing:) Ge Hongbing's transcendental thinking about human existence is what we often call ultimate concern. Because humanistic spirit involves people's thinking and care, its formation and transformation have a profound impact on the formation and development of a culture, the spirit of the times and the national spirit. Because humanistic spirit is a kind of transcendental thinking about human existence, it can directly point to the essence of human existence, has metaphysical characteristics, directly explores human spiritual world and its core, and has an important function of shaping human spiritual world. Because of this basic connotation, humanistic spirit has gained rich and profound philosophical connotation. It has a permanent charm that transcends history, times and culture.
The so-called cultural inheritance is to share the breadth and depth of human spiritual achievements, that is, to cultivate knowledge and spirit. A teacher's cultural background not only determines his ability to understand and control textbooks, but more importantly, only teachers with rich cultural background can create rich classrooms and give students a wide range of culture.