Thus debates over Sung (960-1276) and Ming (1368-1662) philosophy are to see clearly the nature of the common man, and then to bring out mankind's moral nature to raise consciousness on the meaning of life and raise the common quality of life.
如宋明理學家所討論的，並非全屬玄虛空疏的心性理氣而已，而是要求透視普遍大眾的人性本質之後，發揮人類德性的內涵進而提昇生命意義的認識，改進共同生活的品質。