心學經世陸象山

Approaching the Statecraft through the Philosophy of Mind: on Lu Jiu-Yuan's Major Thoughts

陸象山為南宋大儒，「心學」是他學養中的重要標誌，陸象山談心學，不止是就內心世界的修養來講而已，而是牽涉到許多具體的外在事功，這便是陸象山經世濟民的抱負。只是心學與經世的關係是什麼？心學又該如何做，才能經世？儒者修身治國的理想，在陸象山身上又如何展現？他是怎麼看待這個理想呢？本文的論述，即是圍繞這些問題出發。

Lu Jiuyuan was one of the most important Southern Song Confucian thinkers whose primordial preoccupation centers on the “philosophy of mind”. To him, such philosophy was far more than an inner learning or interior quest, which, arguably, was supposed to deal with many exterior, concrete, and sociopolitical issues. Based on this premise, the present essay intended to answer the following questions: What is the relationship between the philosophy of mind and the method of statecraft? How can the former be practiced to perfect the latter? And, in which ways does the ideal of such philosophy manifest itself in the case of Lu Jiuyuan as a Confucian?