关键词: “精神”, 思想政治教育学, 基础概念, 观念系统, 范畴

Abstract: The concept of “spirit” is concerned with the mental state of human beings, forging their spiritual character, and stimulating their spiritual motivation, which is not only the basic category of ideological and political education, but also an important dimension of the theoretical history of the discipline of ideological and political education. Systematically sorting out and clarifying the concept of “spirit” from the perspective of ideological and political education will help promote the basic theoretical research of ideological and political education in the new era. The concept of “spirit” in the discipline of ideological and political education refers to a state of consciousness with valuable implications, the core of which is a conceptual system with social stipulations and political orientation that helps the subject to change with a certain practical character. “Spirit” is able to identify the scope of ideological and political education, characterize the humanistic premise of ideological and political education activities, show the mental state of human beings from the perspective of ideological and political education, refine the value goal of ideological and political education, and exert its explanatory power when running through multiple fields such as ontology, humanism, morphology, and practice, thus becoming a symbolic concept of the discipline of ideological and political education. 

Key words: “spirit”, the discipline of ideological and political education, basic concepts, concept system, category