关键词: 王学, 泰州学派, 传统道德, 危机

Abstract: In the middle of Ming Dynasty, new factors reflecting the moral requirements of civil society at that time appeared in the development of Chinese traditional ethics, these factors sparked off a so-called theory of rebellion fromthe traditional ethics or morality, thus resulted in the crisis of traditionalethics. This inclination of development began from Wang Shouren who had been restoring the Neo-Confucianism, and got to the extreme to its decendant Taizhou-School. It resulted in out of rules of traditional ethics, ethical thoughts' pressing close to life and identifying the moral requirements of merchants and citizens.

Key words: Wang-School, Taizhou-School, Traditional morality, Crisis