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Fifteen Lectures on Songming Ethics is a paperback book by Yang Lihua, published by Peking University Press, book price: 40.00, page: 287, the article bar I have carefully collated some of the readers of the readers of the aftermath of the book, and I hope that it will be helpful to you.

"Song and Ming ethics 15 lectures" read (a): reasonable and interesting, a rare book I can read and understand the introduction of science

This book is reasonable and interesting, in my contact with a few books on science is a "cranky chicken group". The following points are my reading and thinking.

1. My longitudinal understanding of Confucianism: almost isolated East Asian mega-agricultural region --- "the philosophy/religion of the agricultural nation Han - Confucianism: atmosphere, confidence and pragmatic ---" until China's modern Western industrial and commercial society in the face, and the rich agricultural resources and agricultural traditions, on the contrary, became a curse of resources to impede the transformation of society --- "Confucianism has lost the ability to explain and guide the ability to be doubted no longer mainstream ---" the loss of explanatory power and guidance by the It is no longer mainstreamed... --China's social transformation has made some progress, and the size of its population and geography have made it competitive..." The confident and pragmatic side of Confucianism has begun to resurface. But what has changed and what has not changed in the micro-foundations of society is something to which special attention should be paid when speaking of Confucianism now.

2. Shao Yong is very much like Luo Zhi.

3. For the first time, I saw someone say that he understood the contribution and status of Han Yu, and incidentally, why Han was ranked among the eight great scholars of the Tang and Song dynasties.

4. The Song's favorable treatment of scholars has nothing to do with dynastic temperament/emperor's benevolence, but is very much about the foundation of the country.

5. I find it far-fetched that every famous scholar of science and science has to do with Zhouyi. I wonder if so few classical writings have survived that the ones that remain are over-interpreted and over-used.

6. The difference between Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism is probably similar to the current collectivism and individualism without ***ism. There is no right or wrong, only suitable for the specific social situation.

7. Li Bai's poems have the flavor of Taoism, Du Fu's poems have the flavor of Confucianism, and by the way, Wang Wei's and Li Shangyin's poems are the flavor of interpretation.

Fifteen Lectures on Song and Ming Ethics (2): Listen to Mr. Yang's lecture on Song and Ming Ethics

Since I was a young boy, I was born in science, and I was not interested in the knowledge of the liberal arts, history, geography, and politics. These subjects are not interested. See the text of the book will feel dizzy, but read Mr. Yang Lihua's "15 lectures on Song Mingxiology" book, I feel calm, seems to understand a lot of things.

Song and Ming philosophy, that is, the dominant Confucian philosophical tradition of the Song and Ming dynasties. It is represented by many figures, such as Han Yu, Cheng Yi, Zhu Zhou Dunyi, and so on. These people possessed a wealth of knowledge, and also had a handful of good literary skills, able to write articles, talk about poetry and paintings, can really be described as talented people. It was under the leadership of these talented men that philosophy developed in ancient China.

Since I was a child, I have loved the writings of these figures, like Han Yu, Zhu Xi, and Zhou Dunyi. Previously, I just appreciated the content of the works, beautiful and beautiful, or smooth, or a thousand turns. The articles seemed to flow like clouds and water, so people had to praise, and many of the articles were also included in the language textbooks. Now it seems, these articles, not only is the author of the scene on the description of the object, but also on their own thoughts of the exposition.

Song Mingxiology is profound and profound, and has an endless attraction, so that we can understand the reason at the same time, but also reflect on their own thoughts, so that our minds are more sedate. Thinking about the world, the universe, life and these big topics. These are precisely the role of philosophy, driven by the predecessors, so that we better understand the world, understand themselves.

Fifteen Lectures on Song and Ming Philosophy

The book, Mr. Yang, with his profound doctrine, shows us the beginning of Song and Ming Philosophy, the development, and the famous schools of thought. It gives us a preliminary understanding and knowledge of Song Ming ethics, especially for people like us who usually have little contact with philosophy.

Reading this book allows us to think about the ideas behind the famous figures while understanding the reasoning, and at the same time refining our own ideas. It is true that standing on the shoulders of giants is the only way to see higher and farther.

Read "Fifteen Lectures on Song and Ming Ethics" to understand the knowledge behind Song and Ming Ethics, and to learn more about the origins behind the thoughts and works of such famous figures as Han Yu, Zhou Dunyi, Zhu Xi, and so on.

Fifteen Lectures on Song and Ming Ethics

In recent years, China has become one of the world's leading economic powers, and in the context of national self-confidence and the invasion of Western culture, the call for the revitalization of traditional Chinese culture has become more and more intense, and Confucianism is a topic of meaning. History is often similar, more than a thousand years ago in the late Tang Dynasty, there was also a vigorous revival of Confucianism, opened the peak of Confucianism in the Song and Ming dynasties.

Yang Lihua's Fifteen Lectures on Song and Ming Ethics begins with "Han Yu and the Revival of Confucianism". Han Yu is most widely known as "The Master's Discourse", which was included in the language textbooks. According to Yang Lihua, this article precisely reflected the decline of the teacher's way at that time, and Han Yu, in order to re-establish Confucianism's respect for teachers, rewarded the latter from the opposite side. This is one of the six major contributions made by Han Yu to the revival of Confucianism, as suggested by Chen Yinke, the others being: the distinction between Chinese and Barbarians, the rejection of Buddhism, the invention of the Taoist system, the Ancient Literature Movement, and the commendation of the University. It was under the advocacy of Han Yu that Confucianism, which had been declining under the influence of theology since the Eastern Han Dynasty, began to form a self-consciousness of cultural subjectivity, established its own Taoism, and embarked on the road of revival.

In his preface, Yang Lihua says that this book "emphasizes the unity of logic and history in the development of the history of philosophy, and tries to show the coherent and progressive level of thinking between the various links in the development of Song and Ming philosophy. He believed that in order to understand the whole history of the development of Song and Ming philosophy, we have to go back to the basic structure of the Song and Yuan Academic Programs, of which the first one, the Settlement Academic Programs, is about Hu Yuan. Therefore, after Han Yu, he went on to talk about the three early Song masters, namely, Hu Yuan, Sun De and Shi Jie. Yang Lihua at the same time on the challenge to the Song and Ming scholars of the genealogy of the inheritance of ethics, such as Wang Anshi than the two Cheng, Zhang Zai important Chia Man, Lu Zuqian than Zhu Xi important Tian Hao, he also said that Yu Yingshi's "Zhu Xi's Historical World" is a "very influential failure of the work".

This book is based on a summary of the author's insights from years of teaching Song Ming ethics at Peking University. Unlike the objective introduction to the history of philosophy, many parts of the book have the author's own insights, the more obvious of which is to honor Zhu and dispel the king. Yang Lihua highly esteemed Zhu Zi, and even believed that "after Confucius, there is only one person", surpassing even Mencius. While many people denigrate Zhu Zi's "keep heavenly principles, destroy human desires" as inhumane, Yang Lihua believes that Zhu Zi's "human desires" refers to excessive desires. He also praised Zhu Zi's worldview as "geometrically exquisite and well-balanced". From this, it is only natural that he "took it upon himself to dispel the king's science". He said, "In terms of classical interpretation, Yang Ming had many problems, for example, his interpretation of the Ge-tsubo can basically be concluded to be wrong." As a general reader, all we have to do is not be biased, read more, and form our own perceptions.

It is worth noting that Yang Li-hua introduces Luo Shunqin's thought at the end, whereas neither Feng Youlan's nor Hu Shi's history of Chinese philosophy deals with this person. Yangming Xinxue is still very important today, and Luo Shunqin's life was a life of struggle against Yangming. Wang Yangming, in his "Definitive Essay on Zhu Zi's Later Years", said that Zhu Zi emphasized in his later years the inward use of energy rather than the outward use of material things, and he accused him of "not being exhaustive in his examinations, but too fruitful in his arguments. He wrote a letter to Wang Yangming, who also replied, inviting him to communicate with him face to face. Unfortunately, before Luo Shunqin's second letter was sent, Yangming had already died. Otherwise, there would have been one more good story in the history of science outside of the Zhu-Lu controversy. According to the author, Luo Shunqin inherited the tradition of Taoism of the two Song dynasties, which can be regarded as the development of Taoism of the two Song dynasties in the Ming Dynasty, and corrected the style of the mid- to late Ming Dynasty, "his efforts and contributions are invaluable."

The same Song and Ming ethics, in Feng Youlan's History of Chinese Philosophy is more professional and difficult to understand, because it quotes the original direct interpretation, the language is also extremely academic, which the part of the metaphysics of non-specialists read as falling into the clouds. On the other hand, Fifteen Lectures on Song and Ming Ethics retains Yang Lihua's colloquial and personalized lectures, integrating important materials into specific lectures without listing them separately, and occasionally contains the wonderful words "modern people have a terrible sense of superiority over history", which are comments on the current situation. For the general reader, this book is the ultimate gateway to science.

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"Song and Ming Dynasty" read (4): a person's history of science

Yang Lihua, the so-called Yangzi also, is that he is self-interrupted reasoning, there is a family to say. In the past, I read his push article, do not like, reason to play to, but just a spirit of hair over, skimming the mundane, where the chaos of the body to paste over here, there is almost chicken soup. Since the first stored stereotypes. I heard that Mr. Xiong ten force a curse to save Xu Fuguan, is to teach people as long as the benefits of his understanding, so that reading, only to have long progress. It is not that I do not know this reason, read Yang Lihua in the end can not avoid vulgar. Take a night or two to try to understand, he Dongli righteousness, there are comments, is to see the effort. He tried to avoid Buddhism and Taoism, guessing to get rid of the science of Wang Shu, only in the science of the root of the system one by one dialectic, so had to re the Northern Song Dynasty five, and in Zhang Zai's words, and more invention. Behind to the Southern Song Dynasty, only Zhu Zi as the patriarch, the rest are crumbs, is the heart of the school of thought depreciated, this is also a gain of opinion. But look at him see clearly, know how Zhu Zi learning vast subtlety, and then start. Zhu Zi received the two Cheng, the "heaven is the reason" for the natural law of the nature of the universe; received the Zhou Dunyi study, the "Taiji" as the root of the universe of the universe of the universe of the generative theory; received by Zhang Zai, is the "gas" for the composition of the universe of the universe of the quality of the universe of the theory of the universe of the composition. In it, the meaning of the birth of heaven and earth is taken out, and the one of mixed elements is set up there as the spirit of Confucianism in the end, the work is worn out and the literature does not fall, and the mountains and rivers are destroyed and the one reason is not extinguished. To see why Confucianism is popular for thousands of years and thousands of countries, it is to see the world as real, as real, and then the human heart and nature are not real up. But he is excited about the text, and will be the social problems attributed to the cultivation of savings, that through the bright mind to know what it stops the section is not through, the true scholar's view. End of the words, it seems to say that he is in the general body on the glittering, just in a small program there are still sparse, is not to cover up the flaws also. At the end of the fox said, that can not get all the changes in things, and in the general body of the Yingchuan, not yet there. Song and Ming philosophy of the book, checking less, said yes or no, just reasoning learned, schooling know, purely take for granted. Only to be in the future to review the comparison, and then come back to speak carefully.

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When Confucianism developed to Song and Ming, after a group of sages and great scholars continued brewing, development, evolution, development, and sublimation of hundreds of years of accumulation, ushered in the golden period of the development of Song and Ming Ethics, which produced a number of great glory. The golden period of the development of Song and Ming ethics was ushered in, producing a number of brilliant and famous scholars, and ultimately forming the far-reaching Song and Ming ethics. People with science and engineering background may lack of understanding of Song Ming ethics, or even know little, but in the process of learning for more than ten years, for Han Yu, Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi, Zhou Dunyi, Zhu Xi, Wang Yangming and other famous historical figures will not be unfamiliar to Zhu Zi's "for the canal where to get as clear as Xu, for there is a source of living water," Zhou Dunyi's "Love Lotus Sayings The popular masterpieces and quotations of Wang Yangming's "Unity of Knowledge and Action"...... will certainly not be unfamiliar to us. Prof. Yang Lihua's "15 lectures on Songming ethics" is a comprehensive and systematic explanation of the Songming ethics of the primer.

This book is from a famous family. It is one of the strongest series of popular reading and teaching materials of its kind in terms of subject coverage, scale and compilation.

The author of this book, Prof. Yang Lihua, is a professor and doctoral supervisor of the Department of Philosophy at Peking University. In recent years, he has mainly devoted himself to the study of Song and Ming philosophies as well as the philosophy of Wei and Jin, and this book is a perfected and revised version of Prof. Yang's lectures on Song and Ming philosophies, which is a lecture on the scholarly achievements, historical contributions, and cultural value of the major figures of Song and Ming philosophies.

As a liberal arts textbook, I think this book has the following three features:

In terms of the ideological lineage, the system is clear. In order to explain the origin of the genesis of the science, this book from the Tang Dynasty Han Yu Confucianism revival movement, roughly according to the chronological order of the development of the Song and Ming Dynasty, until the Ming Dynasty, Wang Yangming, Luo Qingshun combing explanation. Important figures and ideas such as "Sincerity and Taiji, Divine Principle, Gas and Divine Transformation, Reason, Qi, Static and Dynamic, Formal and Definitive Body, and No Good and No Evil" are explained in a structured manner. In this process of ideological evolution, the author elaborates on the various stages of the Song and Ming philosophies, their development, refinement, and enhancement, and explains the academic thoughts, historical contributions, and limitations of representative philosophical figures. For the key figures and core ideas of Song and Ming philosophy, such as Er Cheng, Zhang Zai, Zhu Zi, etc., the author has devoted a great deal of effort to explaining them at greater lengths, making it easier for readers to understand and accept them.

In the academic point of view, there are broken and established. Prof. Yang Lihua has been studying Song and Ming ethics for many years, with extensive knowledge and fruitful achievements. On the basis of the research results of his predecessors, he has also opened up and formed his own academic thoughts in many aspects. In this book, in the study of each famous scholar of science, he first cites the research results of his predecessors, and then puts forward his own insights and views. For the former research results, where the advantages, disadvantages are, how to screen and analyze an academic point of view, made a reasoned explanation and analysis, he led you to the chamber, teach you research methods, help you sort out the veins, and ultimately what can be gained, or to look at their own. After all, "the master leads the door, the practice in the individual".

In terms of language style, it's easy to read. As a textbook for general education and reading books, this book is based on the revised manuscript, many places still retain the language style of the lecture. This also determines its overall style of solemn condensed, righteousness, evidence, rhetoric can be taken into account, not drama not vulgar not vulgar, there is a strong academic flavor. When I read it quietly, I felt as if I were there, listening to the teachings of famous authors. In the process of reading, I can feel that the author of the study of science devoted to the full passion, those who are full of admiration, his admiration for the sages of science, the promotion of Chinese Confucian culture, and become the soul of the whole book.

"Culture can be expressed in four words: cultivation rooted in the heart; self-awareness without reminders; freedom with constraints; kindness for others! This understanding of "culture" has been popularized from Weibo to WeChat, making many people ponder and reflect. After reading the book, I suddenly realized that this is also one of the essences of the book. As the saying goes, "the road is not far away from people", those full of wisdom philosophy, never far from us, just need to slow down our feet, meditation to realize.

By the way, I would like to remind you that this book is not suitable for fragmented shallow reading, focus on a period of time, read without distractions, there will be a lot of gains.

Mengren Mengyin on November 25, 2015 Use reprints please contact.

Fifteen Lectures on Songming Ethics: A Cornerstone in the Historical Development of Chinese Philosophy

A Cornerstone in the Historical Development of Chinese Philosophy

Quality education has become an inevitable trend in higher education as well as civic education in the society nowadays. Advocating the all-round development of personality and striving to create more complex talents combining theory and practice is the most important task of education nowadays. The Tao Te Ching once said: "It is better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish." Liberal education is the "fishing" of "teaching a man to fish".

Liberal education, "is a high-grade subject popularization book, can meet the requirements of all kinds of readers in the community to obtain knowledge and improve literacy ...... can be used as undergraduate Liberal Studies (Liberal Studies) textbooks and extracurricular reading materials." The "Lecture Series of Famous Lecturers" is a large-scale multidisciplinary popularization book initiated by Peking University and collaborated by many key universities and scientific research institutes across the country, and "Fifteen Lectures on Songming Ethics" is from this book series.

In the preface of the book, Dr. Yang says, "Emphasizing the complexity and diversity of Confucianism in the Northern Song Dynasty is not the same as finding a basis for denying the genealogy of Taoism, which is centered on the Five Sons of the Northern Song Dynasty; similarly, discovering the important influence of the Hunan School does not shake Zhu Zi's position in the history of philosophy. position." From this, the reader can see that Dr. Li-Hua Yang holds Zhu Zi in high esteem, and that "to open up Wang Xue as one's own mission" is self-evident.

Everything speaks of a root cause, the development of Song and Ming philosophies, in the history of the impossible overnight, it is bound to go through the ignorance of the exploration, gradually become a system, perfect, the development of the peak and so on. Against the backdrop of the flourishing of Taoism and Buddhism in the middle and late Tang dynasties, where the spiritual world of the scholars was either Buddhist or Taoist, and fewer and fewer people truly had Confucian orthodoxy, the promotion of rational living came into being. Therefore, the first lecture of Dr. Yang Lihua was "Han Yu and the Confucian Revival Movement". The famous Gu Wen movement can be said to be one of the pioneers of Confucianism revival, and as the pioneer Han Yu, his contribution was enormous. Here, Dr. Yang Lihua quoted Mr. Chen Yinke's "On Han Yu", which summarized the main contributions of Han Yu in this revival movement into six aspects: advocating the Chinese-Eastern Chinese distinction, repelling Buddhism, inventing the Taoist system, the Ancient Writings Movement, honoring the "The Great Learning", and rewarding later generations of scholars. In the early Northern Song Dynasty, many important figures among the scholars, such as Ouyang Xiu and Su Shi, were influenced by Han Yu to varying degrees, both in their writing styles and in the construction of their personalities.

From the revival movement of Han Yu in the Tang Dynasty to Wang Yangming and Luo Qingshun in the Ming Dynasty, the author has meticulously sorted out and explained the general development trend of Song and Ming ethics according to the historical development. The first one is Zhu Zi, which is a very obvious academic tendency of the author, and there are others such as Er Cheng and Zhang Zai, etc. For these historically famous writers and scholars, the author has devoted a separate chapter or even a few chapters to discuss and summarize them in detail. Especially in the language, because it is a lecture form, in-depth and easy to understand, compared to the difficult to understand all kinds of esoteric philosophical history, Zhouyi, etc., this book of Song and Ming ethics of fifteen lectures is really a good material as a general education textbook.

In the development of Chinese philosophical history, Song and Ming philosophy is an important cornerstone. If you want to have a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the development of Chinese philosophy, you can't avoid the piece of Song Ming ethics. In today's era, money is important, but knowledge and cultivation are equally important. Reread the classics to cultivate yourself, rule the country, and pacify the world.

"Song Ming ethics 15 lectures" read (7): Song Ming ethics of the introductory readings

Song Ming ethics on the book in recent years and a lot of research on the study of Wang Yangming is more like a little bit of the street, from time to time will see one or two books about Wang Yangming appeared in the Amazon mail ads. Of course, this is not to say that Song Ming philosophy has been studied through, or Wang Yangming has been studied through, on the contrary, it may be precisely because no one can see through them, so there are people who continue to embark on the road to study them, hoping to dig out the subtleties, to show the world a more visual Song Ming philosophy, a more intuitive Wang Yangming.

Yang Lihua's Fifteen Lectures on Songming Ethics is undoubtedly a book, or handout, to help us get started with Songming ethics. The book's structure is rigorous, on the characters and ideas, although most of them are to the point, the elaboration of the author's private goods, in general, is to give such as the author of Song Ming ethics white a different enlightenment, as well as some of the reading of some of the awakening.

On the Song and Ming philosophies, Li-Hua Yang starts with Han Yu and the revival of Confucianism, which fills a misunderstanding of the author's unclear lineage of the Song and Ming philosophies. From Han Yu to the last Luo Qinshun, a **** fifteen lectures, but the vein is not interrupted, the whole Song and Ming philosophy string of organized, and the important period of the thought of the elaboration. We always think that there is not much metaphysical thinking in ancient Chinese philosophy. However, this is not the case. Although Confucianism thinks more about the functioning of the real world and does not believe that the existence of the world needs to be proved. But the philosophy or worldview still exists. Whether it is the "Gratitude for material things and knowledge" or "There is no reason outside the mind, and nothing outside the mind", they are all elaborating on the view of the world and the search for the "Divine Principle". In Song and Ming philosophy, a "Divine Principle" and a "Unremitting Life" are all about metaphysics and metaphysics, and they run through the whole development of Song and Ming philosophy. The development of Song Ming philosophy and some of the ideas put forward are undoubtedly the opposite of what is believed to be the absence of philosophy after the Qin and Han dynasties.

This book is not just about the ideas of individual scholars, but also about the "common sense" misconceptions that people have, so that outsiders like us don't get confused and believe in the fallacies and forget the original meanings. For example, one of the reasons commonly used in textbooks to criticize the Song Ming ideology is that it "preserves the Divine Principle and extinguishes human desires," believing that the Song Ming ideology is all about the elimination of human nature and the pursuit of the elimination of human beings. In fact, this is not true. In this book, the author repeatedly tells us that "human desire" is the excessive desire of human beings. Obviously, in emphasizing the cultivation of one's moral character, Confucianism or Song Ming philosophy is about restraining one's undesirable desires, not about eliminating human desires. Another point is about "starving to death is a small matter, but losing one's chastity is a big matter", which is considered as a kind of chastity kidnapping of women, but in fact, the real statement in the Ercheng Jie is "extremely generous", and the wife has to consider her future prospects, so that she can have the possibility of remarrying again. The author of these ideas in the introduction of the narrative, do not forget to remind us to read, not just know a sentence or two, out of context in the circulation of the matter is very easy to form, so we are such a thing, the reader or the audience should be cautious, as we face the time of the book, if you can, we may wish to read the original exploration of the original thinking of the ancients.