On The Thought Of "innate Knowledge" Of Wang Ji

Wang Ji, who is a well-known disciple of Master Wang Shouren, has made a greatcontribution to the School of Mind in Chinese history of philosophy. He continued the theoryof innate knowledge, based on it he make it more deeper, and gradually formed his ownsystem.This article based on the explaination of innate knowledge, view the theory in thewhole system, and combine the characteristic thoughts and value theory, give some objectiveevaluation of Wang Ji’s philosophy.Innate knowledge, effect theory and self-cultivation are three parts of Wang Ji’s innateknowledge theory. This article depends on this three parts to explain it. The first chapterbriefly summarize the innate knowledge at first, and then explain the “four wu”theory and thecharacter of the innate knowledge；the second chapter explain the theory of the effort, theralationship of innate and postnatal effort and discuss three works to get to know the innateknowledge, want to know, keep the knowledge and forget the knowledge；the third chapterexplain the self-cultivation, it have three parts, they are beyond the common world, surpassthe life and death and be free and alone. The research on Wang Ji’s innate knowledge willhelp us to reflect our own behaviour and the further meaning is to provide some advice to thepeople in this modern sociaty.