儒学平民化的一次尝试——论泰州学派王艮的“百姓日用之学”

A Sample of Bringing Confucianism into Common People's Life——An investigation of Wang Gen's thought of "people's everyday life"

王艮出身平民,不是完全的学究型学者,所以他对于儒学的思考也是从普通百姓的日常生活入手,提出了他自己的"百姓日用之学",强调圣人之学就是百姓日用之学,人们只需在其日常生活中体贴良知之天理,离却日常生活,无道可明。他的这一思想是儒学平民化的一次尝试,为儒学从少数精英学者之事向天下百姓皆可为之之事的过渡,为儒学在社会生活尤其是普通民众中的实现和普及作出了杰出的贡献。

Wang Gen is a famous philosopher of Ming Dynasty, and also the founder of Taizhou School. He was born from cornmon people, so he was not a scholastic academician. He began his thinking of Confucianism with ordinary people＇s everyday life and put forward his own thought of ＂people＇s everyday life＂, which emphasized that who wanted to become the sage had to experienc the conscience （ that is also the natural law） from their everyday life, otherwise, nothing would be comprehended. This thought has become a sample of bringing Confucianism into commonalty＇s life, which has also prominently contributed to transiting the Confucianism as only a few elites＇affair into all the people＇s affair, and popularizing the Confucianism to the social llfe, especially the common people＇s life.