Title: Adhering to Beliefs——No sorrow Means Happiness——On the Outlook of Suffering and Happiness in Confucian School of Idealist Philosophy of the Ming Dynasty
Abstract: Confucian and Yanhui's in their sordid social environment and their own living conditions is one of the central questions in Confucian school of idealist philosophy of the Ming Dynasty.Discussion over this issue expressed the outlook of suffering and happiness of the scholars of rational Confucian philosophical school.The philosophical school in the Song Dynasty succeeded to Cheng Hao's and Zhu Xi's philosophical thoughts in the Song Dynasty;however,their outlooks of contentment were different.Scholars in the Ming Dynasty philosophical school like Cao Duan,Xue Xuan and Hu Juren interpreted contentment via and held that contentment was a realm of pure natural at heart.They paid much attention to life practice,so they felt it infeasible to limit that boundless law,and had a feeling of escaping the human life.SO most of the scholars in the Ming Dynasty philosophical school defined law as a principle of natural.So the contentment in their hearts is mainly free of care and ease of mind.
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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