PhilosophyBook · 1518
Instructions for Practical Living
Wang Yangming
Wang argues that knowledge and action are one, and that moral understanding is innate rather than acquired by studying things.
Why you should read this
Records the teachings of Wang Yangming, founder of a Neo-Confucian school built around the unity of knowledge and action, arguing that genuine moral knowledge is inseparable from acting on it. Assumes some grounding in the Confucian classics that Wang is responding to and revising.
- Field
- Philosophy
- Form
- Non-fiction
- Published
- 1518
- Themes
- Eastern PhilosophyPhilosophy
