Research On The Subjectivity Of Wang Yangming's "Innate Conscience" Study

Under the structure of "Onto-Mind is Heavenly Principle",I have the research on the subjective of Yang Ming's "Innate Conscience" study between "Innate Conscience"and the extension of it.I do not use innate conscience as the starting point but the emotional expression of it,because emotion is human's true way of being.The benevolence thought of Confucius and Mencius valued emotion,because Confucius and Mencius discussed benevolence not in terms of a metaphysical construction,but in terms of the real existence of human beings,that is we referring to "benevolence"with our original emotions such as insecurity and compassion.So,benevolence is shown and proved through emotional expression,and these original emotions are meant to express that one is born with moral intuition.Confucius and Mencius also emphasize "wisdom",which is not pure wisdom,but "benevolent wisdom" based on"benevolence".Wang Yangming inherited these emotional traditions,invented the conscience mind,and made the moral intuition from the original emotional level to the innate conscience level,and his inheritance of emotional expression of benevolence and "benevolent wisdom"behaved in the degraded expression of "Innate Conscience","the mind of judgement" and "the feeling of like and dislike".His concept of "Innate Conscience" is a fusion of Mencius' "innate conscience and capability",and it is raised to the ontological level under the "Nature and Principle"structure of Song and Ming Theory.The concept of "the sense of judgement" and "the sense of shame" inherited from Mencius point respectively to the internal and external directions of self-awareness.The "the sense of like and dislike" is also a traditional expression of Confucianism and Mencius,and the legitimacy of "the sense of like and dislike" resorts to "benevolence",not all feelings of like and dislike is moral.Wang Yangming's emotional expression through "the mind of judgement","the feeling of like and dislike" makes the "Innate Conscience" truly relevant to human being,and making the ideal possible for everyone to become a sage is established.It also makes the morality of human emotion needs to resort to the "Innate Conscience".The moral intuition of Confucius and Mencius,which remained at the level of native emotions,is advanced by Yang Ming to the level of ontology.The innate conscience,as a capacity for self-awareness,has two directions of self-clearness and self-conciousness.The onto-status of innate conscience is "Ding" whether it is silent or not.Human being is born with a whole innate conscience,but due to the obscuring of temperament,the degree of it is different.Whether much or less of the degree,people all need to put the "innate conscience" into extension.Wang emphasized the importance of the cultivation of "innate conscience" in practice.People can be born with "innate conscience" because of the de-substantiating through the proposition of "Onto-Mind is Heavenly Principle".Combining the"Onto-Mind is Heavenly Principle" and "Innate Conscience",which leads to a completely abolishment of the externality,fixedness and objectivity of "Heavenly Principle",and make the mind,nature and heavenly principle originally-one.Consequently,"Heavenly Principle" is unique to human being,no longer belongs to nature substances.In fact,this is a moral-level refinement of the "Heavenly Principle"and makes it directly opposed to human desires in the framework of the "Heavenly Principle and Lust".Under the proposition that "Onto-Mind is Heavenly Principle",Wang Yangming has accomplished the empowerment of innate conscience and the feelings of like and dislike through de-substantiating the "Heavenly Principle",and has placed the supreme authority of morality in the position of "Innate Conscience".However,Yang Ming did not abolish the use of the concept of"Heavenly Principle",but used the expression of "Heavenly Principle of Innate Conscience",the concept under the structure of "Nature and Heavenly Principle" is always the highest authority.The subject through the extension of innate conscience consciousness-generating activity make everything acquires its value,the subject also becomes a value-being and constitute the value world of one's own life.Under the proposition of "Onto-Mind is Heavenly Principle",the "Heavenly Principle" is de-substatiated and exists in the form of innate conscience,which makes one a subject both with emotion and reason,and permeate the life of the subject through the extension of innate conscience.Man is not only a moral practitioner,but in this practice he endow with value to all things,and in the process becomes a value-being.