A Brief Discussion On Wang Yangming's Theory Of Human Nature

Wang Yang ?ming lived in the middle period of Ming dynasty which was full of the unrest and the turn. There were new changes in the economy, deep contradiction in the politics. With the development of the society, the focus of culture moved.Based on the tradition of the Hsin Hsuen in the Confucianism, Yang ?ming who experienced the unrest tried his best to save the society. Therefore, he founded mind and the heart ontology which proved that the Mind and the Principie had the same position through the proposition: ind is the Principle? which connected the Mind and the Things to get?Mind and Things forming the same body?through the will.In the debate of the efforts, Yang ?ming strengthened he unity of knowledge and action?which expressed in the ind? ill?and hings? In his proposition, here were two tendencies, one was elting the knowledge into the action?, the other was rielting the action into the knowledge? The other efforts were incerity of will? he investigation of Things?and he extension of Innate Knowledge?Yang ?ming?s theory of Mind and Nature was the end of the Neo ?Confucianism, because it brought the collapse of the Neo ?confucianism. His theory absorbed the thought of Taoism and Buddhism, and it also had far ?out effects on the later ages.