Body,Mind,Nature and Destiny:The Historical Interpretation and Modern Construction of Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism
The study of body,mind,nature,and destiny represents a historical interpretation paradigm of Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism and also constitutes a modern reconstruction by contemporary scholars.This interpretative framework has been consistently utilized by scholars from the Song Dynasty to the present day.It not only serves as a general term for Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism,but also points to its main connotations or objectives,encompassing the studies of body and mind,nature and principle,and heavenly mandate.It includes both the inward dimension of personal cultivation(inner sagehood)and the outward dimension of governance(outer kingship).The interpretative framework of body,mind,nature,and destiny embodies a conceptual structure of body-mind-nature-principle-heavenly mandate:from body and mind to understanding nature and principle,and from nature and principle to comprehending the heavenly mandate.A new theory constructed on this basis can be termed the study of body,mind,nature,and destiny.Its characteristics include taking the unity of body,mind,nature,and destiny as the field of research;following a sequential approach to the study of body and mind,nature and principle,and heavenly mandate;featuring the integration of substance and function,a pathway from practice to transcendence,and aiming at the ultimate ideal of the unity of heaven and humanity.It delineates the research field,conceptual structure,and main features of Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism,providing a new perspective and experience for contemporary interpretation and reconstruction of Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism.
Song-Ming Neo-ConfucianismBody and MindNature and PrincipleHeavenly Mandate
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