英文摘要
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Wang Yang-ming's theory of mind-nature mostly involves the inquiry of mind, good conscience, attaining good conscience, and the cultivation theory. The religiousness of Wang's theory of mind-nature is concerned with how he viewed the doctrine of divine deities, the theory of living for long life, as well as how one should face the fear of death, the fear of gods and demons, and destiny. This article addresses this issue along three steps: the mind-nature theory, the relationship between heaven and man, and the applications of the mind-nature theory to the religious dimension of Confucianism; then we would view the religiousness of Confucianism through these three perspectives. First, the mind-nature theory explains the formative background for his theory heaven-man relationship as part of Wang’s views about the subjectivity of man. Second, the function of the heaven-man theory is to form a transferring mechanism and meditative relationship, whereupon to form the view about gods and demons and the confrontation with life and death from the perspective of "mind, nature, and heaven originating form one source." To put it in a concrete way, the framework of Wang's knowledge follows the inherent logic of "being founded on the mind-nature theory and the theory of good nature," "establishing the reasonableness of the heavenman theory," and finally "fulfilling the aforementioned theories in its religiousness," applying his mind-nature theory to his dealing with the affairs about gods, demons, life and death. This article would address how Wang’s theory of mind-nature views the religiousness of Confucianism in terms of the "immanence of Wang's theory of mind-nature", "Wang's theory of mind-nature and its heaven-man relationship" and "how Wang applied his theory of heaven-man relationship to the religious dimension of Confucianism."
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