英文摘要
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In this article, we discuss the debate between the doctrine of mind and Neo-Confucianism through the correspondences between Ouyang Nan-ye and Luo Zheng-an. In these letters, they both examine and answer one another through their own positions, and therefore there is not much intersection in their arguments. From the position of the "liqi theory," Luo sees Ouyang's idea of "conscience as perception" not achieving the metaphysical heavenly principle and his claim of "Confucianism founded on the heaven and Buddhism founded on the true mind" close to Buddhism. As for Ouyang, he sees Zhu Xi's ideas of "investigating things and thoroughly probing the underlying principles" as not reaching the conscience but possibly making tao far away from rather than close to human beings. They have distinctive and contrary interpretations about the "investigation of things" from Great Learning, which shows their adherence to their respective philosophical frameworks, that is, mind as the principle and nature as the principle. In general, they can't sympathize with one another, making it hard for them to reach any consensus. Some scholars, such as Wu Zhen, Deng Keh-ming, Lin, Yueh-hui and Zhang, Xue-zhi, refer to the debate in these two letters; this article is meant to discuss more thoroughly their arguments and illustrate further the similarities and distinctions between the doctrine of mind and Neo- Confucianism after the times of Zhu Xi and Wang Yang-ming.
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