page_title: Wang Yangming
section_title: Philosophy
hierarchical_section_title: Wang Yangming / Philosophy
caption_attribution_description: 中文: [明朝] 王守仁 像 设色 来自：王守仁 像——姚江人物 名人堂 原作为二维平面艺术（古画），作者逝世已逾百年，无特殊版权要求。
context_page_description: Wang Shouren, courtesy name Bo'an, was a Chinese calligrapher, military general, philosopher, politician, and writer during the Ming dynasty. After Zhu Xi, he is commonly regarded as the most important Neo-Confucian thinker, with interpretations of Confucianism that denied the rationalist dualism of the orthodox philosophy of Zhu Xi. Wang was known as Yangming Xiansheng and/or Yangming Zi in literary circles; both mean "Master Yangming".
  In China, Japan, and Western countries, he is known by his honorific name rather than his private name.
context_section_description: Wang was the leading figure in the Neo-Confucian School of heart, founded by 陸九淵 Lu Jiuyuan (or Lu Xiangshan) of Southern Song. This school championed an interpretation of Mencius, a Classical Confucian who became the focus of later interpretation, that unified knowledge with action. Their rival school, the School of Principle (Li) treated gaining knowledge as a kind of preparation or cultivation that, when completed, could guide action.
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