Abstract:
Tonnies’ rural community imagination is not only a moral theory, but also an education strategy. The nature of moral decline of town society is the result of big community, but not a natural product of the rural world, not even the natural disposition of farmer’s virtues.Rebuilding community experience and recovering the virtue quality of farmers in towns, is the education choice when town society faces modernity and urbanization as an enlarged community. Cultural design, life arrangement and moral communication of town community is not only the social project of constructing “an urban countryside”, but also a moral plan of farmers in town’s education. It is a community simulation, but also the modern way of Tonnies community imagination. The mission of education is to make town society become a “big school” of farmer’s education. To achieve the spiritual reconstruction of town society, giving fragmented rural areas and individual farmers the opportunity of spiritual rebirth, and rebuild oriental farmers’ shared virtue—public spirit. If there is no town logic and its design of enlightenment strategy, any pure economical reformation will face failure. Making town enlightenment founded on rural logic, cannot be regarded as conservatism of morality.Rural logic, as a moral standard of farmers in the town is the target of building a community, but also the reason of fulfilling this target.
