The Study Of WangYangming's Politcal Ethics

Wang Yangming is the uncommon immortal figure of "virtue, saying and merit " in the history. As a politician, he inherited the traditional confucian political ethics and had his own innovation. The conscience theory of Yangming effectively safeguard the feudal rule, because it not only revealed the social abuse but also healed the people thought.On his governance idea, Yangming followed the ideas that a traditional politician should sticked to. Firstly, he inherited the concept of LuJiuyuan:maintaining the authority of the kings, meanwhile keeping the harmony relations between sovereign and people; Secondly, he insisted on the "rule of virtue" of the pre-qin dynasty Confucian school, which regard "benevolence"as the basical theory and "courtesy" the basical means. He also focused on basic means of ideological and moral cultivation, having the thought of people-centered; Thirdly, he promoted the equality of personality and occupation, trying to stable the foundation of feudal governance; Lastly, he specially emphasized the"inside saint and outside king"idea, and the great power of the supreme personality.On his Political ideals, Yangming hoped to establish a model society. This model society was made up by two levels. Firstly, the individual moral personhood level——"saint" full of main street. He sticked that social governance not only relied on the saint king, but also on the broad masses being saint. Secondly, the social model level:recovery to the" Three generations". He thought three generations was a perfect society.On his ideal about the virtues of officers, he was advocated to the good character of probity, modest, loyalty, diligence and responsibility; Yangming also summed up a series of theory based on "knowledge and action in one", such as aspiration, amendation, sitting meditation and experience through the action.Yangming was a loyalty practicer of his own political ethics. He attached the view that schools, families and society regarded as an organic link between overall, the education served for politics, which seeked an coordinated and balanced program of development between intellectual and moral. The practice of the education served for politics was an inevitable result of Yangming, because he was an Confucian and an officer in the meaning while.In short, Yangming was indeed a politician from overall. But as a feudal spokesman, his interest to the public was not from his true love and he didn't know how to calm the social contradictions through solving the land demand. Thus, his political ethics thought was a product of his class stand and should be scanned with a dialectical view of the historical materialism.