Wang Chong is an outstanding materialist thinker? Educator, his? Philosophy can be summarized as follows:
(a) "day? Natural inaction ":Wang Chong believes that heaven and earth are natural material entities without will, and the movement and change of everything in the universe and the generation of things are the results of natural inaction. "He believes that everything is generated by material" Qi "and natural movement, and that" heaven and earth are harmonious and everything is self-generated ". The competition between creatures is due to the strength of various creatures' muscles, the strength of their momentum and the dexterity of their movements. This is not the intentional arrangement of God, nor is God a personality god with the will of nature.
(2) "Heaven can't give birth to people": Wang Chong thinks that heaven is nature and man is the product of nature. "People are also a kind of thing; Things, things are also ",thus cutting off the connection between heaven and man. He carried forward Xunzi's materialistic thought of "knowing the difference between man and nature". He said: "People can't feel the sky with actions, and the sky can't respond to people with actions." He believes that social politics and morality have nothing to do with natural disasters, and the so-called "harmony between man and nature" is only the result of people comparing heaven with their own ideas.
(3) God extinguishes ghosts: Wang Chong thinks that living is death. Man can be born because he has. Essence and blood, and "when a person dies, the blood is exhausted, but the essence is exhausted, and the body decays and decays into dust." Why use it as a ghost? " He thinks that people's death is like the extinction of a fire. Why can a fire be extinguished? There is light? He gave a materialistic explanation of human spiritual phenomena, thus denying the existence of ghosts and breaking the superstition of "retribution of good and evil".
(4) Today is not as good as before: Wang Chong opposes the idea of "respecting heaven and learning from the scriptures" and thinks that modern people are in harmony with the ancients, and modern people are in harmony with the ancients? There is no basis to say that the ancients are always better than today. Is it unreasonable? The ode of the past is not today. He believes that Han is more progressive than in the past, and that Han is "above one hundred generations" because Han is behind one hundred generations. This view is completely contrary to the view that the sky will not change and the road will not change.