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

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