Wang Shouren 王守仁 (1472 – 1529), who appears more frequently in the history of Chinese philosophy under his pseudonym Wang Yangming 王陽明, is generally recognized as the most important exponent, indeed founder, of
A staunch Confucian, Wang Yangming began his studies of Zhu Xi’s (see selec-tion 64) form of Neo-Confucianism at a young age. He was struck by Zhu Xi’s insistence thatwisdom came from “investigating things,” a concept Zhu Xi developed from a phrase in the clas-sical Confucian text...
We only emphasize the restriction of ethics on the individual's heart and behavior, but do not realize the importance of laws and regulations. Wang Yangming's theory has its positive practical significance, so it can guide the Meiji Restoration in Japan. However, his emphasis on means, his ...
which he calls tianxia tixi (under-the-heaven system), to replace Western arrangements of global power; Jiang Qing, a leading scholar in the recent revival of Confucianism, proposes
3.Zhu Shunshui s Practical Thought and His Attitudes to Song-Ming New Confucianism;朱舜水的实功实用思想及对待程朱陆王的态度 4.An Exploration of the Historical Background and Social-ethical Evolution of Lu Jiuyuan and Wang Yangming s Idea of the Cultivation of Spirit;陆王心学的历史产生及社会伦...
Yangming’s Philosophy, clearly shows that it is under the influence of this new academic tide.Zhu writes in its introduction that this book is to“mine WANG Yangming’s philosophy from the perspective of political philosophy”in order to find out: how politics is possible in Wang’s ...
In Chinese philosophy, there is a person who cannot be avoided by everyone called Wang Yangming. He has a very important proposition called"the unity of knowledge and action". When I first heard the term "unity of knowledge and action," I thought it was called "cognition." What I recogniz...
CONFUCIANISMWang Shouren 王守仁 (1472 – 1529), who appears more frequently in the history of Chinese philosophy under his pseudonym Wang Yangming 王陽明, is generally recognized as the most important exponent, indeed founder, of the Neo-Confucian "School of the Heart...
Wang Yangming was a Chinese scholar-official whose idealistic interpretation of neo-Confucianism influenced philosophical thinking in East Asia for centuries. Though his career in government was rather unstable, his suppression of rebellions brought a ce