부산대학교 도서관

When Wang Yang-ming served as a central government officer in Beijing in 1511, Wang Dao attended his philosophical discussions and had been one of his finest students and close friends. Two years later, intellectual disagreements and unpleasantness between Wang Dao and Wang Yang-ming transpired. The most important reason for the discord is that Wang Dao was gradually influenced by Zhu Xi School, which had a number of different ideas from Wang Yang-ming's. Wang Dao developed Zhu Xi's ideas and accused Wang Yang-ming of having mystical theories about the nature of mind. Later, Wang Dao wrote numerous articles that were highly critical of every major doctrine that Wang Yang-ming had proposed. However, Wang turned to formulate philosophical doctrines from Confucian, Taoist and Buddhist classics on his own instead of following Zhu Xi's. This article reconstructs the critical period in Wang Yang-ming's philosophical development and the intellectual movement he sought to foster.