A Probe into the Humanity and Contemporary Value of Wang Yangming’s Educational Thought

Abstract

The theory of “Extension of Intuitive Knowledge”, “Mind is Principle” and “Unity of Knowledge and Action” in Wang Yangming’s thought integrates philosophy, literature, education, morality, etc., which can not only be traced back to the philosophical level, but can also be embodied in educational thought. Based on Wang Yangming’s philosophical thought, the educational thought has internalized the  “heavenly principle” of external authority into the human heart, and turned it into the “conscience” of people’s inner self-consciousness. It embodies the humanistic awareness and humanistic care that is different from “Keeping the Justice, Eliminating the Desire”, and has a unique era value for the shaping of the Chinese ideological and cultural system and the creative transformation of traditional educational ideas.