茶山的性命与心:实践道德论

茶山试图建立一种与生活和行动不可分割的儒学世界观,在他关于人的本性的理论中,他对上帝的自然神论者的解释为人事中的道德和善提供了本体论的基础。他以天命赋予每个人的人性作为道德倾向,认为这种人性是人自我实现的必要动力。他用一种他认为可以指导行动,在实践和人伦中完成儒家理想的理论来取代理学,其目的在于理解和发展来自于宇宙和人的理。

Tasan's Humanity and Mind: Practice and Moral

Tasan looked forward to reestablishing a Confucian worldview which would be inseparably united to the life and the action. His deist interpretation of "Sovereign in High " as being moral and sensible to human affairs provides an ontological basis to his theory on the human original nature. It is in terms of moral inclination that he defines the human nature which everyone is given by the celestial decree. This nature then gives human being the impulsion necessary to the self realization. He replaced the Neo-Confucian theory that aims to understand and develop the principle inherent to the universe and to the human being, by another one which, according to him, allows to act and realize the Confucian ideal through practices and human relations.