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A Sample of Bringing Confucianism into Common People's Life——An investigation of Wang Gen's thought of "people's everyday life"

Yang Sheng-zhao

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Wang Gen is a famous philosopher of Ming Dynasty,and also the founder of Taizhou School.He was born from common people,so he was not a scholastic academician.He began his thinking of Confucianism with ordinary everyday life and put forward his own thought of people's everyday emphasized that who wanted to become the sage had to experienc the conscience(that is also the natural law) from their everyday life,otherwise,nothing would be comprehended.This thought has become a sample of bringing Confucianism into commonalty's life,which has also prominently contributed to transiting the Confucianism as only a few elites' affair into all the affair,and popularizing the Confucianism to the social life,especially the common life.

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Wang Gen is a famous philosopher of Ming Dynasty,and also the founder of Taizhou School.He was born from common people,so he was not a scholastic academician.He began his thinking of Confucianism with ordinary everyday life and put forward his own thought of people's everyday emphasized that who wanted to become the sage had to experienc the conscience(that is also the natural law) from their everyday life,otherwise,nothing would be comprehended.This thought has become a sample of bringing Confucianism into commonalty's life,which has also prominently contributed to transiting the Confucianism as only a few elites' affair into all the affair,and popularizing the Confucianism to the social life,especially the common life.

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Wang Gen is a famous philosopher of Ming Dynasty,and also the founder of Taizhou School.He was born from common people,so he was not a scholastic academician.He began his thinking of Confucianism with ordinary everyday life and put forward his own thought of people's everyday emphasized that who wanted to become the sage had to experienc the conscience(that is also the natural law) from their everyday life,otherwise,nothing would be comprehended.This thought has become a sample of bringing Confucianism into commonalty's life,which has also prominently contributed to transiting the Confucianism as only a few elites' affair into all the affair,and popularizing the Confucianism to the social life,especially the common life.

Key concepts: Everyday life, Nothing, Conscience, Social life, Sociology, Natural (archaeology), Aesthetics, Philosophy

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