明代道德生活的发展历程

The Process of Development for Moral Life in Ming Dynasty

明代道德生活大体上经历了淳朴时期、衰变时期、堕落时期和颓废时期这样四个历史阶段。在这个历史变迁过程中,不仅鲜明地表现了商品经济发展对社会道德生活的制约性,同时也深刻地蕴涵着明代士人探求社会发展规律的心路历程。

The moral life in Ming dynasty went through four periods including simplicity, declines, degradation and decadence roughly. In the process of historical change, the development of commodity economy had confined the social moral life ; furthermore, it had the spiritual experiences for the intellectuals to search for the law of social development.