Chapter 446: Applying to the world, the unity of knowledge and action
In the Chinese civilization circle of later generations, except for rabbits and monkeys, other countries and regions all respected Wang Yangming very much.
To give an inappropriate example, our students are XXX from elementary school, while in other countries in East Asia, they will accept some theories of mind when they are young.
From Wang Yangming's enlightenment in the dragon field to the spread of knowledge, although there were several disagreements during the period, the overall direction was to continuously improve and develop Confucianism.
After the death of the Ming Dynasty, Yangming Xinxue accelerated its spread to Japan, Korea, and Annam with a group of scholars who were exiled overseas.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Shunshui founded Mito Gaku in Japan, and this school shone during the Meiji Restoration.
Yukichi Fukuzawa, a famous Enlightenment thinker during the Meiji Restoration, was a believer in Yomeigaku.
He believes that the independence of the country must first of all be the self-reliance of the people, and only when there is a sense of independence can they be self-reliant, and those who can be self-reliant will definitely be self-reliant, and when they accept the concepts of "cooking" and "freedom", they will cherish it and use it well.
And the people with low self-esteem hope that virtuous people will manage, and over time they will change from belief to worship to superstition. In this case, if the people are not independent, how can the country be independent?
His development of Yangming's psychology applied "to conscience", "unity of knowledge and action", and "heart is reason" to the Japanese Restoration.
Ryokawa Hoshiyan, Saigo Takamori, and Yoshida Shoin were also disciples of Xinxue, and during the period when Western learning was spreading to the East, they learned with their hearts to confront Western values.
Therefore, Liang Qichao commented: The governance of the Japanese Restoration, the use of mental learning!
It is really too personal for Yang Ming Xinxue, which is very suitable for the market class and the bourgeois awakening in modern times.
Social existence influences social consciousness, and social consciousness has an active counter-effect on social existence.
When a society is about to undergo a great change, it is often the social consciousness that changes first, because the social consciousness is relatively independent.
That is to say, the first germination of ideology will make social existence change, social existence will change, and social consciousness will develop with it.
However, it is a pity that although Yang Ming Xinxue is personalized, believing that everyone can be Yao Shun and could have been further developed, it suffered a major setback at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
Wang Yangming has always had a problem that has not been solved in "The Theory of the Source of the Extraction of Bensai", that is, there are loopholes in the sentence that everyone can be Yao Shun.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, many deviant thinkers had emerged, and their thoughts all pointed to one sentence, that is, "all men are created equal"!
This kind of equality refers to the equality of personality, that is, Wang Yangming's assumption, everyone can be described as Yao Shun, and ordinary people can also be Yao Shun, which is like real gold, even if gold has different weights, but it is real gold in any case!
It is a pity that the germ of humanism was interrupted in the great regression of the productive forces after the Qing army entered the customs, and it has not risen again for hundreds of years.
And Wang Yangming in this time and space came into contact with the knowledge of the people by mistake, and under the inspiration of "Theory of Practice", "Theory of Epistemology" and "Theory of Contradiction", he became more profound.
It not only links everyone to Yao Shun and 'all men are created equal', but also draws on and absorbs the theory of practice and the "Theory of Epistemology", which is equivalent to learning methodology.
Wang Yangming is definitely the first person to "master the long technique to control the master", he borrowed and absorbed all the methodology of "Yan Zheng Philosophy", and then went back to improve Zhu Zi's learning, and then redeveloped the entire Confucianism!
Three months later, Wang Yangming summed up his epiphany thoughts.
In addition to the fact that there is nothing outside the heart, the heart is reason, and the conscience, he also summarized a "unity of knowledge and action, and application in the world"!
Under the influence of practice and epistemology, Yangming Psychology has made up for the shortcomings of methodology.
Not only that, Wang Yangming's proposition: apply it to the world, seek truth from facts, apply what you have learned, and save the people from the world.
Advocate the application of the world, advocate truth-seeking and truth-seeking, oppose exaggeration and unrealistic, and require no empty words, and see practical results in everything.
This is equivalent to the content of practical learning at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and practical learning is also the product of the great prosperity of mental learning.
That is to say, under the influence of the culture of the people, the Yangming Xinxue, which was born out of nowhere, has skipped a hundred years of development, and the starting point has risen to a higher level!
is really "Yan Zheng Philosophy", which is too similar to many ideas in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, so Wang Yangming used it, and it was unusually silky, and it suddenly pushed his knowledge to another peak.
It can only be said that in the body of Uncle Wang, a strange man in the Ming Dynasty, a huge BUG was stuck, or Uncle Wang himself was a BUG in the Ming Dynasty.
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At this time, Liu Daxia was still in Huguang and was ready to advocate retro.
The reason why this is the case is that the people of the past generations will go back to the past.
Whether it is Wang Anshi's reform or Zhang Juzheng's reform, they are all advocating retro first.
Its essence is Togu innovation, which is a helpless move without a guiding ideology.
Generally, it also starts with ideology and literature, and then leads to the imperial court system. This will provide legitimacy for the reform of the law, and when it is criticized, it can also take out the words of the sages to stir up nonsense, showing that this is not nonsense, but ancient!
Even Kang Youwei at the end of the Qing Dynasty, when he wanted to change the law, he had to touch Confucius.
And the current Da Ming, the retro school actually exists! In other words, every dynasty, as long as it enters the process of prosperity and decline, there will be a retro school.
To put it mildly, the present life is not good, so use the past days to negate the present.
This point has been used by successive generations of law reformers, who often lead to a change in the style of imperial examination articles before the law change, resulting in the emergence of a new atmosphere.
In a few decades, the Ming Imperial Examination will pursue simple and heavy writing, and almost all the scholars at that time were imitating the pre-Qin literary style.
As for the pavilion style used in today's imperial examinations, it is not only a calligraphy genre, but also a literary school.
Li Dongyang is the master of the pavilion faction, the guide of the retro faction, and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty politics and slowly moving towards the consensus of changing the law.
By the time Zhang Juzheng was the first assistant, almost all officials felt that it was no longer possible to change the law!
Liu Daxia is now thinking hard about how to burn the fire of retro, he knows that retro is nothing more than the Tang Dynasty faction and the Qin and Han factions.
In short, it is to use the Tang Dynasty, Qin and Han dynasties to illustrate that the law of the Ming Dynasty today has also changed.
If the law is not changed, where is the great unification since the Qin and Han dynasties? Where did the county system come from?
If the law does not change, where is the three-province and six-ministry system of the Tang Dynasty? (The Ming Dynasty borrowed from the Tang system)
What he didn't know was that Wang Yangming had already realized in the dragon field!
If the study of mind spreads, he will definitely be surprised to find that there is still a hammer in the past.
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In fact, after Wang Yangming's death, Yangming Xinxue actually took a lot of crooked paths.
Because the study of the mind can be "quick", just like Zen, you can have an epiphany. Many people learn Yangming Xinxue, but they only learn "knowledge", and they also do not "act".
Zhang Juzheng's reform once banned the study of mind, that is, he discovered the problems of mind.
This is like the college students of later generations, who did not learn XXX theory, but they all learned it, and they also claimed to be the inheritors, that is, they did things and completely deviated from them.
In the end, the more famous it is, the more people it attracts, and the more boastful it is.
Many disciples of the heart have also become empty talkers who open their mouths to "conscience" and close their mouths to "know and do".
This prompted the later generations of psychology to avoid hypocrisy and become real, and then the Ming and Qing dynasties suddenly emerged, and it completely became the creed of readers.
At present, Yang Ming Xinxue, influenced by the culture of the people, has been applied to the world, and has also developed this concept to the extreme.
It is equivalent to a Wang Yangming, who spent a few months to develop the Yangming Mind that was originally about to be born for decades.
It also creatively absorbs the two concepts of "seeking truth from facts" and "practice is the criterion for testing truth", and places the results and effects of practice on whether it is conscience or not.
Because Wang Yangming also figured out that as long as a person works hard to practice his conscience, then no matter whether he "knows" in his heart or not, he will be beneficial to the people and the Ming Dynasty.
If Yan Zheng learned about it, he would definitely accuse Wang Yangming of plagiarizing his wisdom, and exclaimed, Daming really has a capable person, is this to implement the localization of Yan Zheng's philosophy in Daming?
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