论王世贞对宋明理学的批评与反思

明代中后期文坛巨匠王世贞在倡导文学复古运动的同时,还对当时的儒学发展状况进行了系统的反思。凭借渊博的学识,王世贞积极探寻儒家经典本源,指出了宋儒在解经、证史时所存在的种种“支离割强”之处,并对程朱理学和阳明心学的弊端及理学家文艺观念进行了直率的批评,呈现出回归孔孟原始儒学的倾向。

A discussion of Wang Shizhen's reflection on neo-Confucianism in the Song and the Ming Dynasties

Wang Shizhen,the greater master in literary arena of the middle and the late Ming Dynasty made a systematic reflection on Confucianism while advocating the literary movement of "back to the ancients".By referring to the original Confucian doctrines,he pointed out that many incoherent remarks and strained conclusions were made in interpreting classics and doing historical research with the neo-Confucianism of the Song Dynasty.Wang made a frank criticism on the malpractice of neo-Confucianism and the relevant literary notions,which presenting the tendency of returning to the original Confucianism proposed by Confucius and Mencius.