平民儒者注重将经典简约化,藉以认知政治价值。这种政治认知促进了王朝认同,使他们主动履行政治义务。对王朝不切实际的幻想,表现在他们简单化、空疏化、缺乏可操作性的政治设计上。他们对“身”的思考与实践,深化了对政治主体的认知。平民儒者们以翊赞王化为目标,展现了中晚明时代民间社会的活力。由于他们在价值认同上与士大夫阶层有高度的同质性,因而他们的政治认知与社会政治实践,最终淹没于士大夫阶层的主流政治文化中。 Civilian Confucians focus on simplifying the classic so as to recognize the political value. This political awareness promotes the identity of the dynasties and enables them to voluntarily fulfill their political obligations. Unrealistic fantasies about the dynasty are manifested in their simplistic, empty-out, and ill-designed political designs. Their thinking and practice of “body ” deepen their understanding of the political subject. The civilian Confucians, with the goal of embracing Yi Zan Wang, demonstrated the vitality of civil society in the mid-to-late Ming period. Because of their high degree of homogeneity with the literati class in value recognition, their political awareness and social-political practice eventually submerged in the mainstream political culture of the elite-class.