The Academic Ideas And Style Of Chen Que

Chen Que, the progressive thinker at the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty. He had distinct individuality thought and academic characters being a Confucianist taught by Liu Zongzhou's school. He criticized social bad habits that made a fetish of geomantic omen, and thought these evils corrupted morals of the time and impaired the people's livelihood. And he wrote On Da Xue because the study's style of empty talk and argued it didn't the Bible from logic and substance. He did this in order to seek truth from facts and be fettered by a Confucian school of idealist philosophy. The theory of human nature is a important part of Chen Que's ideas. He considered that human nature was naturally instinct by airs, feeling and talent, and human nature wasn't innate and immutable, but it was postnatal. Compared with metaphysics of Confucian school of idealist philosophy, the theory was progressive.Chen Que's academic theory reflected the substance of age. Not only he criticized Confucian school of idealist philosophy's evils, but also he didn't chimed in with Wang Yangming's school of universal mind and didn't firmly entrenched in his teacher's theory. He opened up academic road of reason and liberty.