On the Educational Functions of Wang Yangming's Narrative Prose
Yang Ming's theory is of practicality.His series of writing attached importance to the interpreta-tion of the purpose of Confucius and Mencius and the corrective effect on the hearts of the people of the world,and intended to educate the people,scholars and officials,which has three educational functions:transforming social traditions,encouraging the scholars to learn and learning to be the sages.The writing of narrative prose ran through the whole course of Yangming's official career and the formation process of mind studies,which reflected the personality image of Yangming,contained many implications of his phi-losophy,and left traces of Yangming's achievements.
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