The Scholarly Orientation of Wei Xiao's Interpretation of Daxue and Its Significance
Wei Xiao was one of the most famous scholars in the mid-Ming Dynasty alongside Wang Yangming,but the previous studies that focused on Yang Ming as the centre of the whole Ming Neo-Confucianism not only obscured Wei Xiao's academic contribu-tions,but also covered the diversified aspects of Ming Neo-Confucianism.Wei Xiao followed the footsteps of Zhu Zi and Wang Yang-ming,who constructed their academic systems from Daxue,and meticulously compiled Daxue ZhiGui.Firstly,he attempted to restore the earlier ancient version of Daxue by restoring the ancient text,and then he constructed a new academic system through the new inter-pretation of the"Three Programmes and Eight Entries"of the doctrinal framework of Daxue,revealing the academic qualities of"criti-cally absorbing Zhu and Wang,and creating new doctrines on his own",and he became an exemplary scholar in the middle of the Ming Dynasty who was"a compromise between Zhu and Wang".Wei Xiao's doctrine demonstrated that scholarship in the mid-Ming Dynas-ty was far from being either Zhu or Wang,as existing research has suggested.On the contrary,when Wang Yangming was still alive,there were already hints of critically absorbing and breaking through the barriers of Zhu and Wang,which provided an exemplary refer-ence point for us to understand and grasp the pluralistic orientation of scholarship in the mid-Ming Dynasty.
Wei XiaoDaxue ZhiGuiZhu Zi's philosophyWang Yangming's philosophycritically absorbing Zhu and Wang
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