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| From Sacred to Popular: Popularization of Wang Gen’s Thought of Gentlemen and its Limitations |
| SUN Jun-heng, LIU Ke-xin |
| School of Marxism, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430081 |
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Abstract Wang Gen（王艮）, a philosopher in China Ming Dynasty, emphasized the gentleman（君子） should pay attention to "people’s daily needs"（百姓日用）, arguing that the essence of being a gentleman lies in benevolence (REN,仁爱）and care for people, and what is fundamental is concern for people’s daily needs. He believed a gentleman should live by virtues, and represent virtues. Inheriting Confucius’ tradition, Wang Gen put forward comprehensive qualifications for the gentleman. His viewpoints of gentleman was people-oriented, focusing on average people’s daily needs. He advocated gentlemen to care for people’s needs, which made his viewpoints deeply rooted among people rather than empty talk, and thus being a gentleman was no longer the “privilege” of the few. He compared gentlemen to lotuses. This metaphor is vivid, easy to understand and convenient to popularize. However, the limitation of his idealism and scattered unsystematic analysis are prominent problems.
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Received: 20 June 2017
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