Wang Yangming's enlightenment at Longchang
1508Notable
Exiled to Guizhou, Wang Yangming concludes that moral truth lies in the mind itself. His teaching of the unity of knowledge and action challenges Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucian orthodoxy.
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