系统溯源朱熹“修德为本”思想的义理根基，紧扣二程“初学入德之门”的经典判定与《大学》八条目次第，完整揭示其逻辑建构、本体工夫论支撑及道德合理性。Systematically traces the doctrinal foundations of Zhu Xi’s thought of “cultivating virtue as the foundation,” closely following the Cheng brothers’ classical judgment of “the gate of entering virtue for beginners” and the sequence of the Eight Items in the *Great Learning*, and fully reveals its logical construction, ontological and praxeological support, and moral legitimacy. 阐明朱子如何融贯内圣外王，将修德升华为上达天理、下开人伦的理学德性伦理体系，并为当代道德建设提供传统智慧镜鉴。It elucidates how Zhu Xi integrated inner sagehood and outer kingship, elevating the cultivation of virtue into a Neo-Confucian virtue-ethical system that reaches up to heavenly principle and extends down to human relations, while also offering traditional wisdom as a mirror for contemporary mor...

Taking the Cheng‑Zhu Neo‑Confucian system as the theoretical background, this paper reconstructs the intellectual origins, historical context and internal theoretical logic of Zhu Xi’s idea of “Virtue‑Cultivation as the Foundation of Moral Cultivation”. It further explores its interpretative value for contemporary moral education, individual development, state governance and cyber‑ethics. This study holds that “Virtue‑Cultivation as the Foundation of Moral Cultivation” is not merely a general moral exhortation. Targeting empty speculation and utilitarian scholarly practices prevalent in the Southern‑Song Dynasty, Zhu Xi inherited the Cheng brothers’ maxim of moral praxis: “Reverence cultivates the inner self; investigating things advances knowledge”. With The Great Learning’s Three Guidelines and Eight Items as the structural backbone, he reconstructed Confucian learning of sagehood. Center...

基于程朱理学的思想脉络，系统梳理朱熹 “修德为本” 命题的理论内涵、历史逻辑与基本架构 —— 该命题并非脱离儒学传统的全新创造，而是朱熹基于时代学风弊病，对《大学》“修身为本” 纲领的理学化重构，既是对二程德性涵养思想的批判性继承，也是对先秦儒家 “为己之学” 的接续与体系化拓展。 This paper systematically examines the theoretical connotations, historical logic, and basic structure of Zhu Xi's proposition of "cultivating virtue is the foundation of moral cultivation" within the intellectual context of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism. This proposition was not an entirely new creation detached from the Confucian tradition; rather, it was Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucian reconstruction of the guiding principle of "self-cultivation as the foundation" from the Great Learning, formulated in response to the intellectual maladies of his era. It represents both a critical inheritance of the Cheng brothers' theories of moral cultivation and a continuation and ...

Systematically examines the theoretical basis for regarding The Great Learning as the gateway to virtue in Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism. It illustrates the hierarchical moral cultivation system and interprets the text’s foundational value in traditional Confucian sagehood learning. "The Gateway to Virtue" is the core proposition of the virtue ethics and Confucian sagehood learning of the Cheng Brothers and Zhu Xi. It specifically refers to the fundamental path and practical methodology for scholars to reach the moral realm of sages and conduct virtue cultivation. During the reconstruction of philosophical doctrines and educational reform under Neo-Confucianism of the Song and Ming dynasties, the Cheng Brothers were the first to uphold The Great Learning as the foundation for accessing virtue. Inheriting the exclusive academic legacy of the Cheng School and systematizing Neo-Confucian thought, Zhu Xi ranked The Great Learning first among the F...

“入德之门”是二程、朱熹德性伦理与儒家成圣之学的核心命题，特指学人通往圣贤道德境界、开展德性修养的根本门径与实践方法。在宋明理学的义理重构与教化革新中，二程首开尊《大学》为入德根本的先河，朱熹承续程门绝学、整合理学体系，将《大学》确立为四书之首、成圣修德的第一经典。相较于《论语》《孟子》《中庸》的义理散见、境界高远，《大学》构建了唯一一套由内而外、由静而动、由体而用、由修身而治世的完整道德践履次第。立足二程与朱熹原始文献，以“学为圣贤”为终极目标，结合格物致知、诚意正心、修身齐家、治国平天下的成圣工夫序列，深度剖析二程、朱熹选择《大学》作为“入德之门”的根本性理论缘由，并阐释《大学》在理学德性修养体系中的不可替代价值，回应宋儒扭转空疏学风、重构儒学实践品格、建立成圣工夫范式的核心时代与理论诉求。 "Gateway to the Virtue Realm of Sagehood " is a core proposition in the virtue ethics and the Confucian learning of sagehood developed by the Cheng brothers and Zhu Xi, referring specifically to the fundamental gateway and practical method through which a l...

In the ideological evolution of Confucianism, the Cheng Brothers (Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi) and Zhu Xi elevated the proposition of “The Gateway to Virtue Realm of Sagehood” to a foundational doctrinal principle for moral cultivation in Neo-Confucianism. This theoretical initiative constituted a fundamental ideological reconstruction of Confucian Dao in response to the intellectual challenges posed by Buddhism and Taoism. The paramount emphasis placed on this proposition originates from dual imperatives: the systematic reconstruction of Confucian theoretical frameworks and the standardization of practical moral pedagogy. Theoretically, the notion of “The Gateway to Virtue Realm of Sagehood” facilitates the metaphysical completion of Confucian moral ontology, establishes an intrinsic logical coherence between the Heavenly Principle and human moral praxis, and radically differentiates Confucian immanent transcendence from the detache...