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Wang Yangming Summary

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Under the perspective of pedagogy and the historical textual research, This article attempts to show a dimension of composure (Jing)in the thought world of Wang Yangming, wich is a basic point of his philosophy of humanization, but also the wisdom of the ideological system.
When Wang Yangming began to explore the question of "what kind of good person should be" and "how to become a good person", the idea of "learning for the saints" of the sexologist fits into his spiritual world. Inherited the doctrine of Zhu Xi, Wang Yangming follows the classical doctrine in the Liujing (Six Classics) and Sizi (The Four Books), and carries this pursuit into his own life. Our question is when his humanization of philosophy became a historical information of the past, how can we entered his spiritual world became a critical confused.
Composure is one of the most important conceptual tool for us to rethinking his philosophy, which is helpful for us to understand the real connotation of Confucianism, and also help us to reflection how formation and development of the Yangming School, and rethinking the current educational problems. Confucian philosophy, in the final analysis, is to lead people to do …show more content…

In his life, Wang Yangming devoted his mind to the study of the richness, reality and enlightenment of Confucianism. From the concept of composure, we can find the answer to the question of teach (learn) what and how to learn (teach). On the basis of the concept of human nature of composure, Yangming school advocates that education is not an abstract ontology category, not a clue, but a real internal life, and also a righteouseness to the external life. It means that we can found a Confucianism life which is adapted and accommodated accordingly, it also highlighting human return to the road of good and rightness, so that education attributed to our

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