A Comprehensive Review Analyzing Half a Century of Wang Yangming’s Contributions to Governance in Guangxi

Wang Yangming was a prominent thinker and politician with significant national influence during the Ming Dynasty.He has been a key subject of study in the realms of China’s ideological history,academic history,and political history.His travels to various regions have been the subject of valuable research.While the contribution of Wang Yangming in Guangxi has historically been less extensive compared to his contributions in places such as Zhejiang,Guizhou,and Jiangxi,it has shown gradual improvement over the past 50 years.Particularly,there has been an expanding and deepening exploration of the wisdom and impact he left during his governance of Guangxi.

The Ming Dynasty Printing and Dissemination of Wang Yangming’s Works in Guizhou:On the 1535 Guiyang Edition of A New Supplementary Edition of Master Wang Yangming’s Writings

After Wang Yangming experienced the revelation of Confucian philosophy at Longchang,he disseminated his heart-mind doctrine by engaging in teaching.A great number of scholars in Guizhou followed him and formed the Qian sub-school of the heartmind philosophy,the earliest of local Yangming sub-schools in the country. roughout the Zhengde and Wanli periods of the Ming dynasty,Yangming scholars and local o cials in favor of the heart-mind philosophy worked in collaboration to collate and print six books of Wang’s works in Guizhou.Among these,A New Supplementary Edition of Master Wang Yangming’s Writings represents the most fruitful e ort by both government o cials(Wang Xing)and local scholars(Chen Wenxue and Ye Wu).As an o print block-carving edition of Wang Yangming’s collections in the early years,it is extremely treasured for its rarity of edition and historical value. e profusion of printing of Wang’s works in Guizhou re ects the wide circulation of his heart-mind doctrines in China’s southwest frontier regions,vividly mirroring the growth of Wang’s philosophy outside cultural centers as well as the complicated history of interactive in uence between Chinese marginal and central cultures.

The Relationship between Wang Yangming and Lu Xiangshan in the Light of‘On Eradicating the Root and Source of Evil’

This paper,based on Mencius’s ideas,makes a comparative study of Wang Yangming and Lu Xiangshan in the light of Wang’s“On Eradicating the Root and Source of Evil.”Both Lu and Wang are loyal inheritors of Mencius’s ideas. e author discusses Wang’s inheritance and development of Lu’s theory focusing on two propositions:one is that the intuitive mind is obscured by ma terial desire,and the other,that utilitarian ideas penetrate the innermost mind.Though Wang’s“On Eradicating the Root and Source of Evil”is inspired by Lu,it moves forward to expand Lu’s viewpoints and thinking,and to restructure the framework of his theory.

Water, Plant, Light, and Mirror： On the Root Metaphors of the Heart-Mind in Wang Yangming＇s Thought

Clarifying Wang Yangming＇s thought through a study of his root metaphors of heart-mind is an important step toward explaining his further concepts of the human world. Along with the root metaphors of water and mirror, the metaphors of plant and light work together for Wang to form a coherent theoretical and practical system of xin （heart-mind）. This method is also a good way to unravel the various theories of the ＂three teachings＂ that are intermingled in his thinking. By using this methodology Wang＇s attempts to harmonize several ancient traditions of heart-mind that appear as possibly polarized to modem readers, are illuminated （though they did not appear contradictory to the Neo-Confucians）.

阳明学的当代价值研究

王阳明先生是我国历史上立德、立功、立言三不朽的伟大人物,是一位有世界影响的思想巨人。其学术思想经先秦儒学、汉唐经学、宋代理学的发展之后,成为明代主流的学术思想体系,在中国思想界的地位可谓举足轻重,影响和推动了五百年来中国、邻邦及整个东亚等地区和国家的社会发展和近代化转型,不仅在儒学史上占有重要的地位,而且在当今世界也深具重要现实意义。

日本阳明学的特质及其影响

阳明学传到日本后,与正处于要求变革的特殊的时代背景和日本的国民性格相结合,形成了与中国阳明学不同的特质。主要表现为主张朱王并举、希图调和朱王,强调实践、注重事功,对于实践的体的灵性、创造力、人和人的生命本身都给予了高度的关怀;日本学者吸收了中国阳明学重视"心"的主体性而进一步提出了通过"正人心"来改造社会的理论,内含着反体制的精神,这种精神加快了阳明学的日本本土化进程,其结果是不仅在思想上,而且在日本社会的方方面面都产生了较大的影响,尤其是幕府末期,阳明学成为了酝酿明治维新的动力和造就一代新人的思想指南,直接成为了推动社会变革的精神武器,为日本明治维新和步入近代工业社会开辟了道路。

阳明学在江苏境内的开展与传播

阳明学与江苏这一方土地有着深厚的关联,不仅阳明本人曾在南京任过职,讲过学,收过学生,而且阳明亲炙弟子中泰州王艮、苏州黄省曾等积极在家乡传播阳明学,外加南京这座城市作为阳明非江苏籍弟子的为官或讲学之地,为阳明学在江苏的推广和兴盛起到了关键性的作用,以泰州学派、常州唐顺之父子等为代表的阳明再传弟子在江苏积极组织和参与讲学集会等活动,进一步推进了阳明学在江苏的传播和繁盛。

A Study on the Theories of Qi in the Middle Ming Dynasty

The revival of qi theory in the middle Ming dynasty is crucial in the development of Confucianism.In this stage,Luo Qinshun,Wang Yangming,Wang Tingxiang,and LüNan discussed issues such as the relationship between li(principle)and qi(vital energy),the relationship between xing(human nature)and qi,and gongfu(e ort)for the theory of qi. e multifaceted debates between them are relevant to the development of Neo-Confucianism and the issues of Confucianism in the Ming and Qing dynasties,demonstrating the features of mid-Ming Confucian theories of qi.A general survey of the four Confucian scholars’theories of qi,especially the transition from li–qi monism to the xing–qi connection,reveals that how to establish the unity between the universe and human nature in the theories of qi became a central concern of mid-Ming Confucianism.In addition,the gongfu for the theory of qi represented a new level of the holistic development of Ming Confucianism,though it su ered setbacks in its development.

王阳明道德精神的两面性深考:道德君子和狂者胸次

王阳明的精神方向可分为两种倾向,即侧重于道德实践的方面和发挥个性、情感的方面。就侧重于道德实践的方面而说,阳明寄给湛甘泉和罗整庵的书信里表示对当时功利化的朱子学,即俗学的批评态度,由此可以看到他的基本立场。就发挥个性、情感的方面而讲,阳明提出无知之良知,强调没有典要、格套的良知之无执着性,从此能以看到他的立场。其实,两种对阳明精神方向的理解方案各自有理,而似难免凿枘之势。

力争毫厘间 万里或可勉——《王阳明与福建》值得商榷的若干问题

由福建省政协文化文史和学习委员会主编的《王阳明与福建》一书,于2020年11月出版,对于福建省挖掘、传承、弘扬阳明地域文化具有积极意义,然而书中却存在一些瑕疵。筛选书中的不确之处,初略汇总为十个问题,逐一辨析商榷,期待再版之际得以适当修正,以避免日后产生不必要的学案,达到嘉惠学人的目的。同时认为编著地域文化书籍应该重视地域特色,强调田野考察、实地访谈的必要性。

对阳明心学“心外无物”学说的过程哲学诠释

阳明心学把陆九渊提出的“心即理”学说进一步扩充为“强形式”的“心外无物”学说,乃是以彻底的心物一元论为宇宙论和本体论基础,把宋明心学推向了彻底的经验论顶峰;“心外无物”所坚持的彻底经验主义认识论,既体现了彻底的主体性原则和主体间性原则,也坚持了能动的革命的反映论原则和“面向事物本身”的现象学方法的基本精神,在哲学倾向上同马克思的实践唯物主义哲学所秉持的实践论基本倾向是一致的。从怀特海过程哲学视域审视和诠释阳明心学的“心外无物”学说,不仅有助于澄清历史上对阳明心学的哲学性质和基本特征的各种曲解和不实之辞,而且有助于我们今天在传承中华优秀传统文化时真正贯彻“古为今用”的原则,有助于我们实现对中华传统优秀文化的创造性转化,以期为我们当今在中华大地上建设现代化强国和社会主义生态文明社会提供一定的理论借鉴和实践动力。