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Yangmingism

The School of Mind, or the School of Heart (Chinese: 心學; pinyin: xīn xué), or Yangmingism (Chinese: 陽明學; pinyin: yángmíng xué; Japanese: 陽明学, romanized: yōmeigaku), is one of the major philosophical schools of Neo-Confucianism, based on the ideas of the idealist Neo-Confucian philosopher Wang Shouren (whose pseudonym was Yangming Zi and who is thus often…

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ChinesePinyinJapaneseRomanizedNeo-Confucianism
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DemianHermann HesseMITUniting knowledge and actions
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related to In Japan · 8
Yangmingism → From, In, Japan, Japanese, Later, Meiji Restoration, Ming, Ming Dynasty
related to The unity of inner knowledge and action · 7
Yangmingism → If, Nobody, Nowadays, The, They, This, Yangming

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