英文摘要
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This paper is to clarify Chen Que's criticism of the theory of human nature from Cheng-Chu Neo-Confucianism, understand the theoretical origin of his construction of humanism, and see the significance of this type of criticism in the academic transformation during the turn between the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Regarding Cheng's speculative context, firstly, we affirm his grasp about Confucian theories of human nature and his framework of the theory of human nature as grounded in Confucius and Meng Zi's doctrines about the goodness of human nature and the ”goodness issuing from Tao and completing nature.” Different from his contemporary intellectuals who challenged the doctrine of mind, Chen confirmed the legacy of the doctrine of mind from Confucius and Meng Zi to Lu and Wang Secondly, regarding the context of this succession, Chen rebutted the doctrine of human nature from Cheng-Chu Neo-Confucianism Opposing the necessity of constructing metaphysical and ontological theories, Chen disagreed with the combination of Meng's and Gao Zi's theories about the goodness of human nature as he refuted and overthrew the Cheng-Chu concepts of nature, Qi, emotion, talent and entity. Finally, we discuss the theoretical meanings of Chen's discourse.
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