Wang Yangming · Philosophy
Wang’s culminating vision: the great man forms ‘one body’ with Heaven, Earth, and the ten thousand things. Innate knowing, fully extended, expands moral sensitivity outward - alarm for a child, pity for suffering animals, plants, even shattered tiles - until compassion embraces the whole world as continuous with the self.
You learned that Wang’s culminating teaching is that the ‘great man’ forms one body ( yiti ) with Heaven, Earth, and the ten thousand things: extended innate knowing expands moral sensitivity outward from humans to animals, plants, and even tiles, so that compassion embraces the whole world as contin…
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