何瑭思想浅论

Comment on Hetang's ideas

何瑭性梗直,无喜愠言,治学严谨。在哲学方面,他提出了阴阳并立、形神并存的二元论思想及“力主在心为知觉,在物为理”的哲学观点;在道德方面,他提倡格致、躬行的处世准则;在政治经济方面,他提倡经世致用,关注社会现实问题,是明代中期一位杰出的清廉正直、惠爱百姓的政治思想家。

Hetang was upright by nature without joyful or angry words, but meticulous in study. In philosophy he put forward the dualism of yin and yang with appearance and spirit. In morality he insisted on the conduct maxim to get the root of the matter and attended to everything personally. In polities and economy he advocated that experiences should be applied to practice and people should care for social problems. Hetang was an outstanding thinker in the middle of Ming Dynasty with honest and clean personality and love for ordinary people.