Wang Shouren | |||||||||||||
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Viceroy of Liangguang | |||||||||||||
In office 1527–1529 | |||||||||||||
Preceded by | Yao Mo | ||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Zhang Jing | ||||||||||||
Minister of War in the Southern Capital | |||||||||||||
In office 1521–1527 | |||||||||||||
Grand coordinator of Nangan | |||||||||||||
In office 1472–1529 | |||||||||||||
Preceded by | Wen Sen | ||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Nie Xian | ||||||||||||
Personal details | |||||||||||||
Born | Yuyao, Zhejiang | 26 October 1472||||||||||||
Died | 9 January 1529 Nan'an fu, Jiangxi (present-day Ganzhou) | (aged 56)||||||||||||
Spouse | Lady Zhu | ||||||||||||
Occupation | Calligrapher, military general, philosopher, politician, and writer | ||||||||||||
Philosophy career | |||||||||||||
School | Confucianism | ||||||||||||
Notable ideas | Yangmingism, Unity of knowledge and action, the streets are full of saints | ||||||||||||
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Chinese name | |||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 王陽明 | ||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 王阳明 | ||||||||||||
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Shouren (given name) | |||||||||||||
Chinese | 守仁 | ||||||||||||
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Bo'an (courtesy name) | |||||||||||||
Chinese | 伯安 | ||||||||||||
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Yangmingzi (art name) | |||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 陽明子 | ||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 阳明子 | ||||||||||||
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Wencheng (posthumous name) | |||||||||||||
Chinese | 文成 | ||||||||||||
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Earl of Xinjian (nobility title) | |||||||||||||
Chinese | 新建伯 | ||||||||||||
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Wang Shouren (Chinese: 王守仁, 26 October 1472 – 9 January 1529), courtesy name Bo'an (Chinese: 伯安), art name Yangmingzi (traditional Chinese: 陽明子; simplified Chinese: 阳明子), usually referred to as Wang Yangming (traditional Chinese: 王陽明; simplified Chinese: 王阳明), was a Chinese philosopher, general, politician, writer, and calligrapher during the Ming dynasty. After Zhu Xi, he is commonly regarded as the most important Neo-Confucian thinker,[1] for his interpretations of Confucianism that denied the rationalist dualism of the orthodox philosophy of Zhu Xi. Wang and Lu Xiangshan are regarded as the founders as the Lu–Wang school, or the School of the Mind.
In China, Japan, and Western countries, he is known by his honorific name rather than his private name.[2]