甘泉学派系指以湛若水为代表的一派学者及其思想。他们上承陈献章之以“随处体认天理”为宗旨,在明中晚期的思想界、学术界,与王派心学并分秋色,有相当的势力。《明儒学案》说:“王湛两家,各立宗旨。湛氏门人,虽不及王氏之盛,然当时学于湛者或卒业于王,学于王者或卒业于湛,亦犹朱陆之门下,递相出入也。其后源远流长,王氏之外,名湛氏学者,至今不绝,即未必仍其宗旨,而渊源不可没也。”(《明儒学案》卷三七)王、湛二人生在同时,互相切磋,过从甚密,彼此思想都十分熟悉。王守仁曾指出湛派思想与自己不同。“近时同志,莫不知以良知为说,然亦未见有能实体认者,是以尚未免于疑惑。盖有谓良知不足以尽天下之理,而必假于穷索以增益之者,又以为徒致良知未必能合于天理,须以良知讲求其所谓天理者,而执之以为一定之则,然后可以率由而无弊,是其为 Oasis School refers to Zhan Ruoshui represented by a school of scholars and their ideas. They insist Chen Xianzhang to “everywhere recognize the truth” for the purpose, in the late Ming and early intellectuals, academics and the king sent the heart to learn and fall, there is a considerable force. “Ming Confucian Case” said: “Wang Zhan two, the purpose of establishing .Zhan’s doorman, although less than Wang’s Sheng, then studied at Cham or graduated from the king, learn the king or graduated from Cham, also Ju Zhu Under the door of the land, the handicapped also has a long history. Since then, Wang’s famous scholar has never ceased to exist, Wang, Zhan two life at the same time, learn from each other, from very close, each other are very familiar with ideas. Wang Shuren pointed out that Cham sent his thinking is different from himself. ”Comrades in the recent past, knowing everything about conscience, said that they have not seen anyone who can confirm their identity and that they have not waived their doubts. , But also that the conscience to the conscience may not be able to co-ordinate with the truth, to conscientious emphasis on the so-called God who, and that the implementation of certain rules, and then can be rate-free, it is