This essay argues for a new interpretation of the notion of “unity” in Yangming's 王陽明
famous doctrine of the “unity of knowledge and action”(zhi xing he yi 知行合一). I distinguish …

In this paper, I take up one of Wang Yangming's most audacious philosophical claims, which
is that an achievement that is entirely concerned with correcting one's own inner states …

We raise the following problem for so-called target-centred virtue ethics. An important
motivation for adopting target-centred virtue ethics over other forms of virtue ethics is its …

This accessible Element defends version of virtue epistemology shown to have all-things-
considered advantages over other views on the market. The view is unorthodox, in that it …

This essay presents and evaluates Harvey Lederman's Introspective Model as an
interpretation of Wang Yangming's philosophy. According to the Introspective Model, one …

Affective Betrayal uses" affect" as an analytical category to explicate the fragility and
fragmentation of Chinese political modernity. In so doing, the book uncovers some of the …

Abstract In responding to Harvey Lederman's essay on the “unity of knowledge and action,”
this essay takes up Wang Yangming's 王陽明 writings on war to consider what Lederman …

Critical thinking is not only important for a good educated undergraduate student but also
essential for a successful postgraduate student. The route of cultivating critical thinking …

Lederman makes a distinction between the ben ti 本體 (“original natural condition”) of
knowledge and action and the gong fu 工夫 (“training”) of knowledge and action, associating …

This dissertation offers a new account of the reception history of the influential and
iconoclastic Neo-Confucian figure Wang Yangming 王陽明 (1472–1529) in early modern …