Hu Juren's Temperament Effort Theory And Its Protection Of The Confucian Orthodoxy

‘Hu Juren,Cao Duan and Xue Xuan were all called Pure Confucians in Ming Dynasty'. He was called“the talent of Zhu Ology'by people because of his persistence and succession of Zhu Ology. But he does not blindly hold on to the established practices of pre-qin Confucianism.Instead, he seeks to be more exquisite to argumentation analysis and pay more attention to attending to everything personal and practice.Residence Record written by him has been called Taoism Masamune still so far. This thesis is aimed at introducing Hu Juren's lifetime and teacher-student relations, and introducing Hu Family's thought from three aspects of heart,temperament and effort theory. This thesis discusses the heart from the views that ‘heart and body are originally weak' and ‘reason is heart and heart is all reason'; His thoughts on human include ‘human is good in nature', ‘comments on human nature theories' and ‘ways to benevolence'; His methods of self-cultivation include ‘virtue building and reflection start from respect', ‘concentrate mind without going adrift', ‘seat solemnly and act prudently' and ‘learn diligently and follow the right way'. Hu Juren is always a firm guardian of CHENG and ZHU's Neo-Confucianism, preaching their teachings and criticizing Taoism, Buddhism and other heresies. He is against the cultivation of the private and strongly advocates learning the teaching of the sages. People first think of Yangmingism when talking about philosophy in Ming Dynasty.But at the same time,we also know that the shows learning in the early Ming dynasty is CHENG and ZHU's Neo-Confucianism, that is to say,there is an obvious shift from the CHENG and ZHU's Neo-Confucianism to thelu-wang theory of mind in the Neo-confucianism of the Ming dynasty. During this process, the three Wu Yubi's ‘general education', white sands of the learning and the Yugan Study had become the ‘illumination' and the ‘start' of yang-ming mind theories.Hu Juren, as representative of Yugan Study, had also played very important role in the shift process. Hu Juren is one of the Four Confucian to be enshrined in the Temple to Confucius in the Ming dynasty, his philosophy shines through Neo-confucianism inheritance development of Ming dynasty, thus by reading his text thought, we can have a better understanding of the neo-confucianism development in the early Ming dynasty.