Interpreting Classics according to Mind：Focusing on WangYangming’s Longchang Enlightenment and His Wujing Yishuo(PDF)
《南京师大学报》（社会科学版）[ISSN:1006-6977/CN:61-1281/TN]
- Issue:
- 2016年03期
- Page:
- 30-43
- Research Field:
- 哲学研究：先哲思想研究
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- Title:
- Interpreting Classics according to Mind：Focusing on WangYangming’s Longchang Enlightenment and His Wujing Yishuo
- Author(s):
- ZHANG Xin-min
- Keywords:
- Wang Yangming; Long Chang enlightenment; Wujing Yishuo; philosophy of mind
- PACS:
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- DOI:
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- Abstract:
- After his sudden enlightenment at Long Chang， Wang Yangming transcribed his memory of TheFive Classics in order to check whether his understanding and what was contained in The Five Classics were inagreement with each other. This can be regarded as an important approach to a just self evaluation：makingone’s personal understanding and the words of the sages mirror each other. Such a method can also be seen asa way to check the subjective against the objective and vice versa. Wang’s approach to the classics indicatedan agreement in values between the world described by the classics and a person’s inner world and opened anew chapter in interpreting the classics according to one’s mind. Because of his enlightenment， his importantwork Wujing yishuo 五经臆说（Opinions on The Five Classics）soon came into being. Although in this bookhe showed a strong political care， what he emphasized repeatedly was the following： The Six Classics werea true record of human mind； The Six Classics were the embodiment of the innate principles in human mind；and following the classics was to follow the principles. All this displayed the scholarly dynamics of a particularage， showing how the paradigm of interpreting the classics according to one’s mind was restored. Until themodern times， Wang’s philosophy of mind was still very influential and thus forms an important philosophicalexperience and tradition to which we can resort when we seek for the approach to a principled life.
Last Update: 2016-05-15