Wang Yang-ming

[ wahng yahng-ming ]

noun

, Wade-Giles, Pinyin.

1. Wang Shou-jenWang Shouren, 1472–1529, Chinese scholar and philosopher.

Example Sentences

The comparative points of view of Wang Yang-ming and Sun Yat-sen afford a quite clear-cut example of the contrast between an established and unsettled ideology.97.d'Elia translation, cited, pp. 336-345.

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Vladislavich, 243 Wang An-shih, 58 Wang Ch'ing-wei, 5, 164, 206 Wang Mang, 58 wang tao, 71 Wang Yang-ming, 80n.,

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A favorite is Confucian Wang Yang-ming, who taught that "to know and yet not to do is in fact not to know."

From Time Magazine Archive

We need not go beyond the schools of Chutsz and Wang Yang-ming, for the third, or "ancient," school adopted the teachings of Confucius and Mencius in their purity, rejecting all subsequent deductions from the actual words used by these sages.

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Thereafter, Buddhism became the national religion, which position it held until the days of the Tokugawa shoguns, when it was supplanted among educated Japanese by the moral philosophy of Confucius, as interpreted by Chutsz, Wang Yang-ming, and others.

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