Philosopher · Early modern period · China
Wang Yangming
1472–1529
Chinese thinker and general who founded the Neo Confucian school of mind, teaching the unity of knowledge and action. He put down rebellions while writing philosophy. He lived 1472 to 1529.
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- Born
- 1472, Yuyao, Zhejiang, China.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Wang Yangming
- Died
- 1529, on campaign in the south.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Wang Yangming
- School
- Neo Confucianism, the school of mind.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Wang Yangming
- Known for
- The unity of knowledge and action: to know the good and not do it is not to know it. And innate knowing, the mind's original sense of right.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Wang Yangming
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