Monday, September 22, 2008

Lu Jiuyuan

Lu Jiuyuan , or Lu Xiangshan was a Chinese scholar who used Confucian terminology in a very Buddhist spirit.

Later movements of Neo-Confucianism revolted against Lu Jiuyuan's metaphysics that regarded moral conduct as a consequence of intuitive insights into the essence of reality. A later Neo-Confucian movement, the ''Lu Wang School'', is named after Lu Jiuyuan and Wang Yangming.

In more recent times, his philosophy has been revived by Liang Sou-ming with the book ''The Civilization and Philosophy of the East and the West'' .

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