Hu Juren,in order to defend the orthodoxy and authority of Neo-confucionism,took the in-itiative to expound a set of Neo-confucionism's"mind thought"to refute Chen Baisha's mind thought as heretical.He believed that the heretical mind thought using the sitting method of"mind without a master"would only lead to the illness of"emptiness"and manipulation by the spirit,while the"mind"of Neo-confucionism using the Neo-confucionism of"mind with a master"can comprehend all changes and dominate all things.The root of its argument lies in the fact that the mind has multiple principles,and the mind and principles are one.Therefore,when the mind is present,the principles are clear;when the mind is restrained,the principles are lost.However,Hu Juren's argumentation of"mind thought"itself has an inexplicable dilemma of"two minds".In addition,he only classified Chen Baisha's mind learning as Zen learning and focused on"deep debate and detailed exploration"of Zen learning,without recognizing the uniqueness of Chen Baisha's mind thought,so he naturally cannot make a strong criticism of it.These shortcomings are the inherent reasons why he failed to effectively suppress heretics and defend principle.
关键词
胡居仁/陈白沙/心学/朱子学/宋明理学
Key words
Hu Juren/Chen Baisha/mind thought/Zhu Xi's philosophy/Neo-confucionism