In response to the political crisis of the late Ming Dynasty and the vacuous academic atmosphere(focusing on noumenon but neglecting efforts)caused by the late followers of Wang Yangming,Donglin scholar Chen Longzheng com-piled the book Essential Writings of Wang Yangming and made his own annotations.The main point of this work can be summarized into three aspects:First,Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism has talked about the unity of mind and principle,but the mind is not equivalent to principle.Second,the original intent of Wang Yangming's doctrine of"no good and no evil"is that"the essence of goodness is not good,"but later followers'focusing too much on the word"no"led to vari-ous problematical practices.The third is about the practical dimension of"the recuperation of conscience"in real-world governance,in which the purpose of conscience must be on practical governance of the nation,and the recupera-tion of conscience is the fundamental premise of the political ideal of"the unity of all things."His annotations in this book shows Chen's academic inclination to harmonize the teachings of Zhu Xi and Wang Yangming.However,regard-less of his preference for Zhu or Wang,Chen's ultimate goal was to apply these teachings to social governance.This perspective allows us to reflect on the academic trends during the transition between the Ming and Qing dynasties and provides a reference for the academic positioning of Donglin School.
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陈龙正/《阳明要书》/阳明心学/无善无恶/经世
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Chen Longzheng/Essential Writings of Wang Yangming/Wang Yangming's Mind Study/no good and no e-vil/social governance
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