Study Of Huang Gan's Thoughts

Huanggan(1152-1221) was a famous philosopher in the Southern Song Dynasty specializing in zhuzism (zhuxi's philosophy), One of the seven able and virtuous men in TanYang, the leader of Zhuxi's disciple after Zhuxi, Huanggan contributed to the development of Zhuzism. However, in present academic circles, the research works related to Huanggan's thoughts is seldom seen and ever ignored. In order to let present people know his important academic position and outstanding confuanism status in Zhuzism, combing historical method and logic method, the dissertation summarizes Huanggan's main academic pursuits and his course of development from a disciple of Zhuxi to an outstanding successor of Zhuxi. Huanggan's thoughts is expounded in the dissertation such as the doctrine on Ontology, the doctrine on mind and Human Nature (xin and xing), the doctrine on ethics and the doctrine on the Dao orthodoxy. Huanggan's thoughts were on the basic of Zhuzism but didn't limit in Zhuzism, Huanggan expound the idea which Zhuxi didn't disclose and made special theoretic contributions to Zhuzism. In the years of Qingyuan, Zhuzism was prohibited and scolded false theory by Song government. Moreover, not having a backbone man, a good deal of controversy had been given rise in the disciple of Zhuxi. Huanggan was loyal to Zhuzism and was the mainstay of Zhuzism. He devoted his life to safeguarding, spreading and propagating the doctrine of Zhuxi. Based on sufficient historical data the dissertation shows the profound influence of Huanggan in the development of philosophy of Song Dynasty and the history of Chinese thoughts. His thoughts is an inevitable link of Zhuzism .