Lecture 09 The Yuan (元 1279-1368) Neo-Confucianism and Wang Yangming (王陽明 1472-1529)

China under Mongol rule
- The empire
- The purpose of the empire
- Restoration of the civil service examination with the Neo-Confucian set of interpretation to the Classics
- Neo-Confucianism under Mongol rule
Practice is more important than reading books or creating ideas
- "This [person] is following Zhu [Xi] and that one is too."
- Xue Xuan 薛瑄
- Wu Yubi 吳與弼
- Chen Xianzhang 陳獻章
"Actualizing one's innate knowledge about goodness" (zhi liangzhi 致良知)
- Wang Yang-ming 王陽明 (name Yun 雲, then Shou-ren 守仁)
- Alienation between the external principles and the mind-and-heart
- Solution: a sudden recall in the coffin
- the issue of the Great Learning
"Acting and knowing is one thing"
- knowing to be good and the knowledge about the external world
- subjectivity is morality
- The flourishing of Wang's teaching

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