本文认为,宋明理学的一个实质精神是人统一于天、个人服从社会、人的感性存在服从人的理性存在的整体本位主义或整体理性本位主义。这一实质精神是对孔孟以来儒家整体本位主义思想的系统化理论化,它构成了中华民族文化基本精神的根本点或实质性内容,对后来中华民族的文化乃至政治经济的发展产生了根本性的影响。 This paper argues that one of the essential spirits of Neo-Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties is holistic individualism or holistic rationalism which obeys people’s rational existence due to human’s perceptual unity. This essential spirit is a systematic theorization of the Confucian holism of Confucianism since Confucius and Mencius. It constitutes the fundamental or substantive content of the basic spirit of the Chinese nation and gives rise to the fundamental development of the later Chinese nation’s culture and even its political and economic development Sexual effects.