While they criticized the 'mind itself as the law' and 'no good, no evil' of Yomei-gaku (neo-Confucianism based on teaching of Wang Yangming), they recognized the position of accepting human desires, and created the trend of viewing the accommodation of social desires as 'law.'
彼らは陽明学の心即理や無善無悪を批判しつつも人欲を肯定する立場を認め、社会的な欲望の調停を「理」としていく流れを作った。