Neo-Confucianism
Confucianism renewed in answer to Buddhism and Taoism: the world is principle and energy
Key ideas
- All things consist of principle (li) and vital energy (qi)
- Zhu Xi: grasp principle by investigating things
- Wang Yangming: principle lies in one's own mind; knowing and acting are one
- The basis of civil service exams in China, Korea and Japan
Key thinkers
- Zhu Xi — Chinese Neo-Confucian philosopher, 1130–1200
- Wang Yangming — Chinese Neo-Confucian philosopher, 1472–1529
Grew out of
- Confucianism c. since 500 BC · Asia
- Chan and Zen c. since 500 · Asia
- Taoism c. since 400 BC · Asia
Meanwhile elsewhere
- Kalam Middle East
- Falsafa Middle East
- Nominalism Europe
- Scholasticism Europe
- Renaissance humanism Europe
- British empiricism Europe
- Continental rationalism Europe
- The Enlightenment Europe
- German idealism Europe
- Utilitarianism Europe
- Positivism Europe
- American transcendentalism Americas
- Russian religious philosophy Eastern Europe & Russia
- Existentialism Europe
- Marxism Europe
- Pragmatism Americas
- Russian cosmism Eastern Europe & Russia
- Phenomenology Europe
- Analytic philosophy Europe