论唐枢的经学思想

On Tang Shu’s Confucian Thought

作为晚明时期甘泉学派的重要学者,唐枢在经学方面有颇多著述,其经学思想的核心理念可概括为“以心解经”。在他看来,六经之实质为吾性“幾神”触感而发的自然作用,六经之来源为圣人对“当世已行之迹”的誊写与记录,六经之功用为对物欲的克除与对性情的燮理。经学为唐枢的心学体系提供了文本依据,心学则为唐氏解经提供了价值取向。唐枢的经学思想对中晚明心学解经思潮起到积极的推动作用,在“心”的领域为明代经学诠释扩展了空间。

As a distinguished scholar of Ganquan School in the late Ming Dynasty,Tang Shu wrote many works in the field of Confucian classics,and the core concept of his Confucian philosophy can be summarized as“interpreting the classics with the mind”.In his view,the essence of the Six Classics is the natural action that arises from the touch of the“several gods”of our nature.The source of the Six Classics is the sage’s transcription and recording of the“deeds that have been done this-worldly”,and the function of the Six Classics is to eliminate material desires and to understand human nature.The study of classics provided a textual basis for Tang Shu’s system of the study of mind,while latter provided a value orientation for his interpretation of the classics.Tang’s Confucian thought played a positive role in promoting the thought of interpreting the classics using the study of mind in the middle and late Ming Dynasty,expanding the interpretation space of Ming Dynasty’s Confucian studies in the field of“mind”.