试论宋濂治心之学的功能

宋濂提出了"吾心为天下最大"的命题,他的理学着重探讨了"人心"与"天地之心",并进而指出人们通过治心工夫的涵养便可以体认天道,使个体人生境界向更高层次精进。治心之学的功能还表现在:心既然是万物的主宰,决定着一个人的本质,那么透过对人心的观察,便能够帮助我们识人;通过治心工夫的涵养,或是通过圣贤文章,体认天地之心,存诚于心,可以成就一代文章大家。不仅如此,在政治实践中他还以治心之学中的人格修养学说来启发引导朱元璋摒弃自身的刚猛与暴戾,通过理论中的阴柔元素来化导朱元璋行事风格中的刚猛。

On Function of Song Lian's Spirit Theory

Song Lian puts forward the proposition of "my spiritual shackles is the loftiest".His neo-confucianism focuses on the "mind" and "the spirit of the heaven and the earth",and then points out that people can realize the idea through cultivating the mind and make individual realm of life to a higher level diligence.The function of cultivating the mind is that we can know people by observing the mind.Moreover,in political practice he used his theory to enlighten Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang to change his fierce style.