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WangYang-ming's Theroy Of "Innate Knowledge" In Field Of Vision Of Moral Subjectivity

Posted on:2010-09-22Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L N WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360275495396Subject:Chinese philosophy
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Wang Yang-ming's theory of "Innate Knowledge" is the core idea of his philosophy, reflects the profound meaning of Wang Yang-ming's philosophy.Western philosophers attach great importance to the subjectivity of exploration and research. Chinese philosophers are also a long time ago on exploration of the subjectivity. "Moral subjectivity" is an important feature of the moral thought of the pre-Qin period. Confucius put forward "for benevolence from their own"; Mencius starting from the original goodness of human nature, he considers people with benevolence, righteousness, propriety, intellectual four-terminal, he emphasis on individual activity of self-aware and self-awakening in the moral practice; Lao Tzu philosophy of "nature" as the highest values, yet "nature" with the meaning of the self-roots, the self-autonomy, the self-cheng and the freedom, its contains the connotation of the moral principles of subjectivity . Pre-Qin philosophers attach great importance to moral subjectivity, yet, from Han Dynasty to Song Dynasty, Dong Zhong-shu's theory of "harmony between man and nature", from a high degree of theological cosmology prove the primitive of the moral principles. Cheng Zhu look for the reasons in the moral legitimacy, tian and tian li become the master of all things, personal moral practice become passive to meet these external regulatory requirements, the value of independence of the individual was canceled. Wang Yang-ming insights into the situation and puts forward the theory of "innate knowledge" as the core of the Heart Study under the Cheng Zhu Confucianism in the theory of unifying the world, he put the basis of social moral from the external and alien nature into the deep heart of the people, those that embody subjectivity, consciousness initiative in the moral practice.Wang Yang-ming's theory of "Innate Knowledge" for the full recognition of the moral existence, those show that Wang Yang-ming concerned the people being about the ultimate of the human, the subjectivity of the human fully carry forward into the process of moral made into virtue and virtue into the external rules.Wang Yang-ming's theory of "Innate Knowledge" aimed at tackling problem and anti-authority, Zhu Zi words are not instead of the standard and take the tian li of objective alien standard back to the earth, then show strongly the moral subjectivity. It liberates the subjectivity of the human from the absolute rationalism of the monopoly of Science, and strongly advocates the spirit of self-determination and autonomy, give a new vitality for academic.
Keywords/Search Tags:moral subjectivity, innate knowledge, extension of innate knowledge
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