| Abstract |
Chuan-shan employs realism to discuss the metaphysical subjects especially in the light of the ontological horizon. To correct the later schools’ overemphasis on inner contents, Chuan-shan repeatedly stresses the significance of the praxis of materialism in an attempt to achieve the fusion of logocentrism and practical lives. That is, Chuan-shan explicates the principle—the Word being manifested in material world. And, by this, he pinpoints the creative significance of metaphysical logos, and brings into light the transformation of the material world into morality. This shifts the emphasis of intrinsic enlightening to the application of the philosophical theory in common lives. Like his predecessors, Chuan-shan continues the traditional point of view—oneness of the heavenly Word and Sinming (nature and the destined mission). In addition, he ensures the importance of materializing inner ontology into moral practice. Furthermore, he earnestly creates and develops the activities of the metaphysical ontology, and makes clear his theoretical approaches. Moreover, in dealing with the problems of practical experimentation, he smoothly shifts the emphasis of ontological dialects to that of practical application in everyday lives. This, in a sense, successfully transforms the subjective praxis of the scholars in the Sung and Ming dynasties into the outward activities in practical life, then eliminating their lack in the objective explication and illustration.
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