A Comment On Wang Yang Ming's Doctrine Of Realizing Intuitive Knowledge From The Perspective Of Practice

Wang Yangming is a great thinker both at home and abroad, who plays an important role in the philosophical history in the East as well as in the West. His way of thinking creates a thinking system which treats the world as an appropriate whole. The first premise of Wang Yangming's philosophy is that heart is ration. According to the wise of heart, the ration of the world can be represented. He discovered the theory that'To be is to be perceived", which is similar to that of the Western philosopher Berkeley. Conscience and the theory of realizing intuitive knowledge are the final forms of his doctrine. The agreement of knowledge and behavior, which can gain complete understanding and whose real meaning can become evident only in the theory of realizing intuitive knowledge, is the sole purpose of Wang Yangming's study in all his life. The theory of realizing intuitive knowledge is the conclusion and summarization of his philosophical thinking, which best represents the prasticity of his doctrine. This thesis tries to interpret the theory of realizing intuitive knowledge from the perspective of practice. It attempts to combine this theory with kant's theory of morality and practice and reinterpret the theory of realizing intuitive knowledge in a deer sense.This thesis can be divided into four parts. In the first part, the author mainly introduces the social and historical background of the theory of realizing intuitive knowledge and its theoretical sources and compares the similarities and differences between the theory of Zhu Xi and Lu Juryman as well as Wang Yangming's theory. In the second part, the connotations of prasticity of the theory of realizing intuitive knowledge are analyzed. Four sub-sections are devoted to describe the essence, the moral practice of inherent conscience and postnatal experience, the academic coherence of realizing intuitive and Acquire the truth in the practice, moral sense consolidating knowledge sense in the practice of acquiring the truth, it interprets its plasticity from difference perspectives. The author attempts to compare the theory of realizing intuitive knowledge with that of Kant's theory of morality and practice in the third part. The last part reflects the humanistic enlightenment of this theory.The theory of realizing intuitive knowledge is the further development of Wang Yangming's splendid behavior of Confucian, and it fully reflects Wang Yangming's humanism and salvation spirit, since it not only concerns the moral practice of individuals but also aims at promoting the spiritual practice of the whole society.