本文探討當代臺灣社會的重要生命課題並提出幾點對治之道。文分三部分，第一部份先指出價值扭曲的社會現象與解構傳統文化的學術論述相加相乘，導致社會的各方面的加進沈淪。本文將具體闡述媒體的敗壞、婚姻與家庭價值的式微、工作與經濟倫理的蕩然，以及在這背後各種價值解構論述的風行。 接下來將提出竑思及因應之道。第二部分論述學校教育之改革應強化生命教育，亦即透過思想竑省與實踐體驗來幫助學生深化人生觀、內化價值觀並追求身心靈提升與知情意行統整的全人教育。文中詳細述生命教育所包含的三個獨立但又彼此關連的領域──不只是學生，所有的人都應在這些根本的生命課題有所省思與實踐，才能活出有意義與快樂的生命。 本文最後將視野擴大到學校以外，從社會及成人教育以及國家制度發的角度提出因挑戰的幾個願景。主要談到的有三方面，分別是支持家庭與職場均衡發展的成人教育與社會制度、具宏觀社會倫理精神的政策與社會架構，以及提升國民倫理思考素養並促進國家政策合倫理性的各種國家級倫理中心的建立。

　　　　　This paper is intended to address the grand education about life for the present society in Taiwan and provide some methods in response. The first part of the article is to point out the fact that the chaotic society with its values twisted and those academic discourses deconstructing traditional culture together lead to the accelerated fall of the society in different aspects. We would specifically discuss about the corruption of media, the decline of marriage and family values, the fall of work and economy ethics, and the popularity of value-deconstructing discourses that lie behind these phenomena. Then we will show how to reflect on the respond to the situation. The second part of the paper is about how the academic education should reinforce life education, which is to help students, through reflection and practice, deepen their outlooks, internalized their values, pursue physical and spiritual improvement and the holistic education of moral knowing, moral feeling, and moral action. In this paper, we explain in details the following three independent but interrelated areas of life education-ultimate care and practice, ethical thinking and reflection, the integration of personality and development of spirituality. In fact, people in general rather than students only should put these fundamental life educations into reflection and practice so as to lead a meaningful and happy life. The last part of this paper extends beyond the school and offers some visions to face the challenges from the perspectives of society, adult education, and the development of national institution. It mainly addresses three areas, the adult education and welfare system that support the balanced development of family and career, the policies and social structures equipped with the ethics of a macro-society, and the establishment of various ethic centers at the national level that improve the citizen's ethics and advance the ethicality of the nation's policies.