英文摘要 |
Although the book The General Sense of Zhuangzi 莊子通義 by Zhu Dezhi 朱得之, a disciple of Wang Yangming 王陽明, was the first complete critical commentary on Zhuangzi 莊子 in the middle of the Ming dynasty, its importance regarding the interaction between the School of Mind 心學 and the Zhuangzi School of Thought 莊學 has still not been explored. As a disciple of Wang, if the conscience was understood and experienced to any extent, ideological resources from the School of Mind would inevitably be used to comment on Zhuangzi. The commentary does not suggest that the beliefs in Zhuangzi are consciously made to comply with Confucianism, but rather that a point can be found to mutually compare the objectives of the two schools of thought by using corresponding ideological resources. In learning from Wang Yangming, Zhu Dezhi's concern was always the inductive relationship between "things" 物 and "conscience" 良知. In fact, his emphasis on "things" would shape his future understanding of Zhuangzi. In light of the various interpretations of the Yangming School of Thought 陽明學, or Yangmingism, during the reign of the Jiajing Emperor (1522-1566), Zhu can be said to have reassessed theories on "things" through a critical review of Zhuangzi, deepened the concern of "all things" 萬物 in the School of Mind, and accumulated ideological resources after studying the Zhuangzi School of Thought during the later period of the Ming dynasty. In this article, I attempt to comb through these once developing traces, which are gradually vanishing from this period of intellectual history, regarding these schools of thought. Through this study, I assert that a better grasp of the intersection between the two schools of Yangmingism and Zhuangzi during the Jiajing period is able to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the relationship between "mind" and "things" explored by the Zhuangzi School of Thought during the Ming dynasty and its complex interactions with the School of Mind. |