Wang Shouren’s ethico-epistemology and the double nature of recognition

Rošker, Jana S. (avtor)

Wang Shouren 王守仁 (1472 – 1529), who appears more frequently in the history of Chinese philosophy under his pseudonym Wang Yangming 王陽明, is generally recognized as the most important exponent, indeed founder, of the Neo-Confucian “School of the Heart-Mind” (Xin xue 心 學). In the context of Neo-Confucianism, Wang's philosophy is of great importance, especially with regard to his views on the inseparable unity of ethics and epistemology and his latent syntheses of Confucian and Chan Buddhist thought. Within this framework, this article will provide a critical introduction to his epistemology, focusing on the innovative elements of his paradigm of the unity of knowledge and action (zhixing heyi 知行合一) and the underlying concept of innate knowledge (liangzhi 良知). For Wang, these two epistemological concepts were rooted in the human heart-mind (xin 心) and possessed intense moral connotations that were reflected in practical ethics. On this ethico-epistemological basis, the paper will illuminate the methods of gradualism and subitism and critically address their connection to the Chan Buddhist view of gradual and instant enlightenment.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: Confucianism, Chinese epistemology, ethics, Wang Shouren, Wang Yangming, Chinese ethico-epistemology, innate knowledge, liangzhi, unity of knowledge and action, zhixing heyi, gradualism, subitism
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: FF - Filozofska fakulteta
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Leto izida: 2021
• Št. strani: Str. 368-386
• Številčenje: Vol. 30, no. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-133628
• UDK: 1(510)
• ISSN pri članku: 2585-8793
• DOI: 10.31577/aassav.2021.30.2.04
• COBISS.SI-ID: 88001283

Avtorske pravice

Licenca CC BY 4.0 je navedena na pristajalni strani članka. (Datum opombe: 21. 12. 2021)

• Datum objave v RUL: 06.12.2021

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: Asian and African Studies
• Skrajšan naslov: Asian Afr. Stud.
• Založnik: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava
• ISSN: 2585-8793
• COBISS.SI-ID: 40930051

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.sl
• Opis: To je standardna licenca Creative Commons, ki daje uporabnikom največ možnosti za nadaljnjo uporabo dela, pri čemer morajo navesti avtorja.
• Začetek licenciranja: 01.12.2021

Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: konfucijanstvo, kitajska epistemologija, etika, Wang Shouren, Wang Yangming

Projekti

• Financer: ARRS - Agencija za raziskovalno dejavnost Republike Slovenije
• Številka projekta: P6-0243
• Naslov: Azijski jeziki in kulture

• Financer: ARRS - Agencija za raziskovalno dejavnost Republike Slovenije
• Številka projekta: N6-0161
• Naslov: Humanizem v medkulturni perspektivi: Evropa in Kitajska