方東美之「王陽明」研究探微──兼論明中葉「重返程明道」的學術思潮

Thome H. Fang's Research toward Wang Yang-ming's Theory-A Related Discussion on Middle Ming Dynasty's Academic Trend：''A Return to Cheng Ming-dao's Theory''

This essay is to discuss Thome H. Fang's view point in his research toward Wang Yang-ming's theory.He points out Wang Yangming's theory is deeply influenced by Cheng Hao's thoughts.Based on this, in the middle Ming Dynasty, besides Wang Yang-ming, this essay also discusses Hu Ju-ren, Zhan Ruo-shui and Luo Qin-shun, who stood by ''the return to Cheng Ming-dao's theory''.Among those, Wang Yang-ming and Hu Ju-ren claimed that Cheng Ming-dao is an important successor of Confucius and Yan Yuan.while Zhan Ruo-shui tried to change the academic trend by praising Cheng Ming-dao's theory, Luo Qin-shun adopted Cheng Ming-dao's arguments to prove his own philosophy.As mentioned above, in spite of different schools, those scholars respected Cheng Ming-dao's arguments and stood by ''the return to Cheng Ming-dao's theory''.This phenomenon can be comprehended that Cheng Ming-dao's theory is an important resource for conflicting or tweaking the main stream theory.