Compendious Disseration Of Wang Gen's Common Confucianism Ideological System

Wang Gen,born in the middle of ming dynasty with a literary name of xinzhai,a style name of ruzhi,was one of the finest students of Wang Shouren,a famous master of the school of mind, and the pioneer of the school of Taizhou.With inheritance from his predecessors,Wang Gen's thoughts have a epoch-making significance.He created the common Confucianism which became very popular in the late of ming dynasty.His thoughts all kept up with the trend of his times and occupied a decisive position in the intellectual history.The ideological trend of humanism resulted from his theories has a profound influence.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.This article summarizes the system of Wang Gen's ideological system of common Confucianism and falls into the following 5 parts.The first part analyses the era background of Wang Gen from a perspective of the historical environment,political and cultural life and the difficult situation of natural science at that time so as to show that the rising and the civilian trend of his thoughts exert a strong impact on natural science,comly with history and political environment and lay a clue for the following parts.The second part ellaborates Wang Gen's thoughts of"putting common people on the first position"from his living and learning experience as well as on the foundation of his thoughts which claims that DAO is the ordinary life of civilians and emphasises that common people are the main concern of philosopy.The third part illustrates the connotation of taking"zunshen"as the main body on the basis of"Baixingriyong"which means giving priotiry of governance to the life of common people in Wang Gen's thoughts which leads to his unique theory of"huainangewu"referring to pay great attention to the people's life in the southern region and exposes the core of his thoughts which is"zunshenliben"meaning taking the life of common people in the heart of governance and"neiwaijiaojieganyingzhidao"meaning taking both the government and common people into consideration for safeguarding the interests of common people.The forth part shows that his thoughts of"tianliliangzhishuo"(behaving according to the law and ethnic regulations)is a creation on the basis of Wang Shouren' s theory and that of"letting your heart guides your behavior"is a breakthrough of differentiating the sensibility from the desire as well as a steady assurance for civilians'thoughts.The last part shows that Wang Gen's thoughts are theories with significance for practice which reflect in the basic characteristics of the ideological system of his common Confucianism.This system for common people is firmly supported by his audiences,simplifications,revolutionary thoughts for the interests of common people. This article exposes all the component of Wang Gen's ideoligical system of common Confucianism in a clear order and makes a objective evaluation.