School
Cheng–Zhu school
Overview
The School of Principle (simplified Chinese: 理学; traditional Chinese: 理學; pinyin: Lǐxué), or the Cheng–Zhu School (Chinese: 程朱理學; pinyin: Chéng Zhū lǐxué), is one of the major philosophical schools of Neo-Confucianism, based on the ideas of the Neo-Confucian philosophers Cheng Yi, Cheng Hao, and Zhu Xi. It is also referred to as the Rationalistic School.
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Confucianism did not assume its present form until the twelfth century A.D., when the personal God in whom Confucius had believed was thrust aside by the philosopher Chu Fu Tze,[21] whose interpretation of Confucianism has ever since been recognized as orthodox. Since the fall of the Mongols (1370), the Government has uniformly favoured Confucianism as the teaching of the State; before that, there were struggles…
Bertrand Russell, The Problem of China
Close in meaning to Cheng–Zhu school; the term itself is not named.
The most varied schools and principles proceeded from this doctrine of Socrates, and this was made a reproach against him, but it was really due to the indefiniteness and abstraction of his principle. And in this way it is only particular forms of this principle which can at first be recognized in philosophic systems which we call Socratic.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
Close in meaning to Cheng–Zhu school; the term itself is not named.
While both schools sought to trace out the identity of the practical principles of virtue and happiness, they were not agreed as to the way in which they tried to force this identity, but were separated infinitely from one another, the one placing its principle on the side of sense, the other on that of reason; the one in the consciousness of sensible wants, the other in the independence of practical reason on all…
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Practical Reason
Close in meaning to Cheng–Zhu school; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Cheng–Zhu school
Related ideas
- Li (neo-Confucianism)
- Cheng Hao
- Mencius
- Observation
- Zhu Xi
- Qi
- Taoism
- Tao
- Buddhism
- Neo-Confucianism
- Tian
- Nature (philosophy)
- Cheng Yi (philosopher)
Place in the tradition
Part of Chinese philosophy.