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Wang Gen's "Common People's Daily Earthly Life Is Tao" And Its Influence

Posted on:2012-04-25Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:G F WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155330332995726Subject:Chinese philosophy
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Wang Gen,born in the middle of ming dynasty with a literary name of xinzhai,a style name of ruzhi,He is a considerable figure in the legend.Wang Gen was born in a family which sold the salt.He had only three years school education in his childhood because of his poor family.But eventually become the master of lectures.His thoughts occupied a decisive position in the intellectual history.The school Taizhou which was established by him became very important and made great contribution to the development of the intellectual history in the late of ming dynasty."Learning through common people's daily using"is the most well-known personality reflects ideological point of view of Wang Gen.It breaks through the "Tao" of traditional knowledge, expand and enrich the "Tao" meaning and form.Most of the former researchers have paid a lot of attention on the new factors and styles of Wang Gen's theory that are quite different with traditional Confucianism.But wang gen was in a social contradictions the complexity of the historic turning point, his ideas are not immune to the social and environmental impact.On the one hand the economic development of the capitalist shown some characteristics of embryonic period, making the public sectors in the emergence of the character of deviationism.On the other hand, the Confucian orthodoxy in the society at that time are still the dominant ideology, so the origin of society among the lower classes and later to the "Celebrity"in the list of wang Gen, he not only some rebellious spirit, which proposed a series of reformist ideas and views.But he could not break the shackles of traditional thinking.This leads to the radical side of his philosophy and the tradition of conservative thinking side.This article will be placed in his mind the development of the whole background of Confucianism, with its geographical and historical situation of the social situation, on the basis of previous research, to " learning through common people's daily using "as the entry point to reveal the idea of a unique theory of Wang Gen and his innovative ideas with traditional Confucian inextricably linked. This article discusses the times of its impact on its academic thinking, focus on the performance of his face and the need to address the problem of the times, the article points out, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, cheng-zhu which is to get the truth is too far away from the commom people.Yangming's theory is much simpler, still has an estrangement since it is something humanistic.But They do not really subject to the value of the life of ordinary people as its central moral issues and topics to study, not realistically be implemented in civil society.However, Wang Gen is the only one who responds the requirement of that time, he inherits Yangming's theory that approves the worldly life and turns the eyes to the ordinary people and raises a system of academy of commom people what can be called learning through common people's daily using.This paper focuses on his new annotation of traditional Confucian that is based on his common people's daily earthly life, Wang Gen starts the new turning of traditional Confucian by the learning through common people's daily using.
Keywords/Search Tags:common people's daily earthly life is Tao, HuaiNan investigation of things, equality in education, studying and happines
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