Cheng Zhu School

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The Cheng-Zhu School ( Chinese  程朱 学派 , Pinyin Chéng-Zhū xuépài , W.-G. Ch'eng-Chu hsüeh-pai ) is one of the most important philosophical schools of Neoconfucianism , which is based on the ideas of the neoconfucian philosopher Cheng Yi (1033–1107) from the Northern Song Dynasty and by Zhu Xi (1130–1200) from the Southern Song Dynasty . The school is in opposition to the idealistic neo-Confucian school of Lu Xiangshan (or Lu Jiuyuan; 1139–1193) and Wang Yangming (or Wang Shouren; 1472–1529). Cheng Yi formulated the main concepts and provided the basic arguments of this school, and Zhu Xi supplemented and refined them, and he molded Neoconfucianism into a systematic and rationalistic whole. At the center of the school is his concept of Li ; its other main concepts are taiji , qi , the nature of man and things, and the study of things and the moral quality of humanity. The school is also called the Rationalist Cheng-Zhu School or School of Nature and Principle ( xinglixue ).

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  1. ↑ Also 程朱 理学 , Chéng-Zhū lĭxué , Ch'eng-Chu li-hsüeh .
  2. ↑ a b cf. the article: "Cheng-Zhu School", in: Han-Ying Zhongguo zhexue cidian. Kaifeng 2002, p. 611 f.

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