Wang Yangming's"Purpose of Pure and Complete"and the Construction of His Philosophical Methodology
Wang Yangming's"Study of Pure and Complete"is not only a"Transmission of Prue and Complete"in the Confucian orthodoxy,but also the overall core concept that unifies and runs through Yangming's thoughts on the mind.It is the"Purpose of Pure and Complete"that con-tains universal methodological significance.By revealing the dialectical relationship between general ideas and specific concepts,Yangming constructed a set of psychology methodology that takes"the purpose of essence and unity"as the fundamental criterion for judging sage truth.Among them,the philosophical methodological reform that uses a dynamically developing and holistic conceptual think-ing mode to oppose the abstract,rigid,one-sided and fragmented conceptual thinking mode consti-tutes the inner soul of this philosophical methodology.Based on the thinking height of"the com-pleteness of the holy way",Yangming combined Zhu and Lu's studies within Confucianism,and"standardizing the three religions"outside Confucianism,and finally constructed a set of teachings with"conscience"as the core system of sage truth.
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