1. The Basic Strategy of Moral Education for Adolescence in the Information Age--- Borrowing Wisdom from Confucius and Socrates Yih-hisen Yu Professor, Department of Philosophy Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan

2. Introduction ---The challenge of information technology to education as part of the challenge of science and technology to humanity for moderns ---The limitations of science and technology: science and technology in doubt since 17 th century in the West: from Pascal, Vico, Rousseau, Romanticists, Existentialists, to Postmodernists. ---Negative response: anti-instrumental rationality, anti-science, and anti-rationalism

3. ---Seeking for a positive answer to the question “How to provide moral education to the youth in a high-tech, capitalist society? ---“What is man?” reconsidered. ---What is virtue? ---Can virtue be taught?

4. Part One Two great educators in the East and West: Confucius and Socrates ---Confucius (551-479 B.C.), the greatest teacher in the Chinese mind ---Socrates (469-399 B.C.), the moral martyr in the Westerner’s mind

5. Part Two Confucius and Socrates on Moral Education ---Their commonness: ---Taking virtue as the essence of man ---Taking the cultivation of the moral character of students as the basic function of education ---Confucius’ view of morality: the concept of benevolence and humanity

6. ---Socrates’ view of virtue: ---Virtue is knowledge, self-knowledge, all evils resulting from ignorance. ---Virtue cannot be taught. ---The Sophists’ view of virtue: ---Morality as nomos, norm, law, and convention, and virtue as law-abiding behavior ---Virtue can be taught.

7. ---Three definitions of the concept of virtue for the ancient Greeks ---Agathos, arête, and the nobles ---Virtue as law-abiding behavior and dike ---Virtue as human function: spiritual qualities, the excellency of reason, wisdom and insight.

8. Part Three Moral Education for Adolescence in the Information Age ---Four major problems for the youth in the information age ---Harm to their health ---Obstruction to their intellectual and mental development ---Crises embedded in virtual friendship ---Sense of value dismissed, subjectivism, relativism, and individualism prevailed

9. ---The strategy of moral education proposed according to Confucius’ and Socrates’ ideas ---negative strategy: helping the youth to build up their real selves, learning the skill of self- mastery, and above all, to prevent them from development the habit of internet addict. ---positive strategy: ---emphasizing on liberal education, strengthening the human identity of the youth ---moral and intellectual education balanced