刘宗周(1578—1645年),字起东,号念台,因讲学于浙东山阴县城北的蕺山,学者尊其为蕺山先生。作为晚明心学的殿军,蕺山的思想宗旨是在心学旧基上重新架设一个刚刻严毅的人学价值体系,藉此矫正阳明后学过于强调“良知现成”而轻忽理性限制和实修工夫之理论偏颇。在工夫论上,蕺山早 Liu Zongzhou (1578-1645), the word from the east, the number of Taiwan, because of lectures in the north of Shandong Shanyin County Dangshan, scholars respect it as Mr. Hill. As the temple of the late Ming dynasty, Dangshan’s ideological tenet is to re-establish an anthropocentric value system that has just been severely punctuated by humanity in order to rectify the post-Yangming school too much emphasis on “conscience ready” and ignoring rational restrictions and Practical work of the theory biased. On the time, on the hill early