經權說에서 본 왕양명의 리더십과 經世觀 - 明德과 親民의 통일성을 중심으로 -

Abstract

The essay is focused upon associating a leadership of noble personality with the way of constant principle and changing application. The way of constant principle and changing application is an axis of understanding the Confucian view of governance. It is based upon how the law of moral canon is justified with a action of practice. Considering a human being of autonomous and active universality and sociality, Wang Yang-ming's view of governance is closely associated with a unity of brightening virtue and intimating people. It can be said that brightening virtue is an individual ability of self-cultivation, and intimating people is a socializing process of governing people. Both of them can be understood in the context of the way of constant principle and changing application. If the former is the way of constant principle, then, the latter is the way of changing application. Therefore, it is consequent that the way of constant principle and changing application is a scale for a governing ability of noble person. It serves for such a Neo-Confucian canon of self-realization as the doctrine that mind is principle, which aims at aspiring a community consciousness in a stream of life consciousness.