A Comparative Study of the View on Death by Confucious,Wang Yangming and Jaspers

Understanding the issue of death can reflect a person's understanding of the purposes,value and significance of the human life. Based on a saying by Confucius,if man does not know death,then how can he know life? this paper applies Jaspers' transcending approach in his philosophy on existence to point out the non- transcendence in Confucian concept of death,and by an in- depth analysis of Wang Yangming's Dragon field enlightenmentto reveal his transcendent concept on death. In this way,it enabled China to realize the revolutionary change in the history of philosophy.