Rather than a redemptional, penance or disciplinary subjective education, moral education is actually an animating, humanistic and practical intersubjective education that is ultimately governed by pure reason. Thus, a rational approach ought to be efficient and selfsatisfactory to it. Specifically, first of all, a transfer from “compulsory indoctrination to dialogical inspiration” and “from center of receiving subject to noncenter of subjectivity” should be realized by an approach of rational communication. Then, a leap “from intelligent statement to moral narration” and “from workerestablishing training to manestablishing education” should be actualized by an approach of ideological shaping. Finally, an evolution “from theoretical world to life world” and “from textual dependence to practical interpretation” should be realized by an approach of practical reasoning.

moral education; communicative reasoning; ideological reasoning; practical reasoning