The fundamental purpose of university education is to clarify the common human nature and promote the growth of human beings. Therefore, university education to promote the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind is a kind of humanistic practice. Universities in the modern sense internalized the ancient Greek liberal education thought, formed the humanistic pursuit of improving the quality of spiritual life, and has made it the consistent mission of university education. Improving the quality of spiritual life is the humanistic connotation of the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind through university education. The construction of a community with a shared future for mankind through university education is based on the premise of the human spirit from spontaneous to conscious awakening, and takes realizing the freedom of human existence as the practical goal. The positive interaction between the premise and the purpose is the mechanism of realizing the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind through university education. University education should cultivate students′ cultural understanding to make them consciously form a consciousness of coexistence; cultivate students′ rational freedom to realize the unity of individual rationality and relationship rationality; cultivate students′ creative labor accomplishment to make them transform cultural understanding and rational freedom into the reality of existence freedom in practice, and finally realize positive interaction between spiritual consciousness and existence freedom.

university education    a community with a shared future for mankind    the quality of spiritual life    cultural understanding    rational freedom    creative labor