Lecture 08 Lu Jiuyuan (陸九淵 1139-1193) and the Statecraft Thinkers

  • "The heart-and-mind is Principle"
    • if there are principles, how do we know, judge, or decide?
    • the subjective side of ethical value
    • the ethical intuition or instinct?
  • A moral person does not need to read to be moral
    • The issue of the innateness
    • All resides in the self
    • the tension
    • the truth
  • Serving the court and the practical knowledge to govern
    • Governance is the extension of self-cultivation
    • Governance is a skill
    • How to evaluate a person
  • Tension between Neo-Confucianism and the civil service examination
    • The purpose of the civil service examination
    • Two perspectives
    • Faith in politics and the issue of the self-identity of the local elites