Wang Yangming "in Conscience" Hermeneutics Meaning Of The Proposition

Wang Yangming' s philosophy of mind is the main collection of subjective idealism in ancient times of China. It creates a new style on the Chinese history of thought in explaining classical text of the Confucianism, and it is a typical interpretation of subject that asserts original intention or conscience as the nature and subject. In Wang Yangming's opinion, conscience is mutually melting of subject and object, as well subject as object, gathering original intention and heavenly principles into an integral whole. The meaning of annotation study thought in the proposition, extension of the intuitive knowledge, is a process that conscience returns from natural state to awareness. The logic is from nature to practice and returns to nature at last. It is also called awareness and practice combined into one, which means nature's conscience and annotator's united into one, and annotator's understanding and his practice united into one. Wang Yangming's classical annotation to the proposition of extension the intuitive knowledge is that the reader uses his own conscience to melt with the Sage Master's conscience that reflects in classical text. Therefore, the reader could understand the symbol's meaning of classical text in order to know the reason in classical text, and finally attain to comprehend the Sage Master's conscience, then realize his own conscience. From this point of view, extension of the intuitive knowledge is the identity of conscience and conscience.