Philosopher · High and Late Middle Ages · China
Zhu Xi
1130–1200
Chinese thinker who completed the Neo Confucian synthesis, giving Confucianism a metaphysics of principle and material force. His commentaries on the Four Books became the basis of the civil examinations for centuries. He lived 1130 to 1200.
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- Born
- 1130, Youxi, Fujian, China.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Zhu Xi
- Died
- 1200.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Zhu Xi
- School
- Neo Confucianism, the school of principle.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Zhu Xi
- Known for
- The Four Books with his commentaries, and the metaphysics of li, principle, and qi, material force.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Zhu Xi
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