If Not Philosophy, What Is Xinxue 心學?

Abstract

ABSTRACT:I examine the impact of Xinxue (the study of the mind), whose most celebrated teacher was Wang Yangming, not as that of a philosophical or quasi-religious movement, but as a body of editorial practices to be situated among other sixteenth-century textual practices. In the twentieth century, Chuanxi lu (Instructions for practical living) has been read for philosophical content, a category that would have been alien to its sixteenth-century creators. Examining what the editors and compilers of the prefaces and postfaces of Chuanxi lu and Wang Wencheng gong quanshu (Complete works of Wang Yangming) have to say about the construction of these texts, I posit that the content of Xinxue's teachings—especially, "knowledge and action are one"—cannot be dissociated from the agency of editors in producing these texts.摘要:本文審視明代心學的影響。不將其視為哲學性或類宗教性的運動，本文將其視為十六世紀各種文本編纂活動中的一種編輯實踐。藉由檢視《傳習錄》與 《王文成公全集》編纂者在序跋中所言，我提議：心學的內容，特別是「知行 合一」，不能與編輯們的能動性分離。