China's Favorite Confucian: Wang Yangming
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In this lecture, Prof Van Norden introduces the philosophy of Wang Yangming (1472-1529), whom China's leader Xi Jinping has described as his favorite non-Marxist philosopher.
Previous Lecture: "Understanding the Classic of Changes," kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oLR2rJmDq7uVqJ8.html
Following Lecture: "Weakness of Will in Confucian Philosophy," kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z8dki5Wn07-te6s.html
For more on the civil service examinations: David S. Nivison, "Protest of Conventions and Conventions of Protest," www.dropbox.com/s/jkt0t0i9jojuz8n/Nivison%2C%20Conventions%20of%20Protest.pdf?dl=0
2:23 Wang’s Life
4:38 The Civil Service Examinations
17:48 Wang as Monist
23:53 The Bamboo Incident
27:55 “Pure Knowing” and Its Source in Mengzi
35:24 Can one write down the teachings of the Master?
42:31 The Opening of the Great Learning
47:51 Wang on “Enlightening One’s Enlightened Virtue”
50:33 Forming One Body with Other Humans
51:38 Forming One Body with Birds and Beasts
52:57 Forming One Body with Plants and Trees
55:46 Forming One Body with Stones and Tiles
58:11 Selfish Desires
1:00:43 Wang on “Loving the People”
1:03:36 Wang on “Resting in the Ultimate Good”
1:07:35 Lecture Overview
@dwl3006 10 ай бұрын
I absolutely adore these lectures, they are incredible. Thank you so much professor, this is really a treasure to humanity.
@BryanVanNordenPhilosophy 10 ай бұрын
Thank you for your kind words!
@globalcompassioncommunity 7 ай бұрын
This is so informative!! Thanks so much professor! I'm Wang Guo Wen (vuong quoc Vinh in vietnamese)
@BryanVanNordenPhilosophy 6 ай бұрын
I'm glad you found something useful in my lectures.
@aFfoochen 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this great lecture. Growing up in a public school in Beijing in the 90s, I wish I could have had a teacher like you and a curriculum like this. Just bought your book.
@BryanVanNordenPhilosophy 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your kind words!
@choyng5437 Жыл бұрын
The sad truth is that under the communist dictatorship, and after the purge of traditional teachings, it is unlikely that Chinese classical scholars with independent mindset and outlook can survive and flourish, it is not entirely surprising you were not able to find a good one, be that as it may,「禮失求諸野」…
@IosefDzhugashvili 11 ай бұрын
@@choyng5437 🤡
@HakuYuki001 9 ай бұрын
@@choyng5437Lol, brainwashed much!!!
@pwsid9044 3 ай бұрын
Thank you
@ramqi6239 2 жыл бұрын
thank to you bryan i know now chinese philosophy is more deep than i tough
@real_Gi 8 ай бұрын
Richard Wilhelm reincarnated into this man's body 🙌
@BryanVanNordenPhilosophy 6 ай бұрын
Thank you for your kind words!
@luisfbjunqueira5837 2 жыл бұрын
Many thanks!
@Yangminggarden Жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing and offering this commentary. Very helpful!
@linfenghuang2115 2 жыл бұрын
Very insightful lecture,thanks.
@shastasilverchairsg 2 жыл бұрын
So that's where 默写 came from. I remember during Chinese lessons in primary school we would have to remember and regurgitate passages from memory from the textbooks, and they would penalize 错别字 and deduct 1 mark for each. I think there was once when I got like literally 0 out of 30 or 50 because I had too many 错别字, and I still remember the passage was about some tribal folk in China's ancient past who were fighting with other tribes (they were even clad in those animal skins etc in the illustrations), and they were losing until some guy beat a drum and spurred them on, leading them to victory.
@broquestwarsneeder7617 3 жыл бұрын
I really appreciate your lectures, Bryan. It's been good to spend some time with neo-Confucianism these past few weeks. I have a couple of questions: - Do you practice jing zuo? - Will you ever consider making a lecture on Han Feizi? - Is your last name Dutch?
@BryanVanNordenPhilosophy 3 жыл бұрын
- I do not currently practice jing zuo, but I have done so in the past, and attended a weekend retreat at a Zen monastery to get a first-hand experience - Some day I will record a lecture on Han Feizi, but perhaps not for a few months. - Yes, my family name is Dutch.
@broquestwarsneeder7617 3 жыл бұрын
@@BryanVanNordenPhilosophy Cool, thanks for answering!
@kenmcrae8591 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this wonderful lecture. It is very beneficial and it taught me much. Is there an English version of his collected sayings / teachings, please? Did he ever write a commentary on the Book of Changes?
@blob15man 3 жыл бұрын
Is just reading Zhuxi’s commentaries on the four books a good introduction to Confucianism/Neo-Confucianism? Is there any pre-readings you would recommend?
@BryanVanNordenPhilosophy 3 жыл бұрын
Many people like to start with my translation of Mengzi: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries. The introduction is a helpful overview.
@blob15man 3 жыл бұрын
@@BryanVanNordenPhilosophy thanks :)
@christophergeddis8829 3 жыл бұрын
Is there an English translation of Zhu Xi's commentaries on the Four Books?
@BryanVanNordenPhilosophy 3 жыл бұрын
There is no complete one, but see Daniel Gardner, trans., The Four Books.
@christophergeddis8829 3 жыл бұрын
@@BryanVanNordenPhilosophy Thanks!
@choyng5437 Жыл бұрын
Generalissimo Chiang and Chairman Mao were also admirers of Wang, and far more enthusiastic followers of Wang than Xi.
@davidfoley8546 Жыл бұрын
Do you have any recommendations for studies in comparative philosophy between the Platonic tradition (esp. Neoplatonism) and Neoconfucianism? Do they exist? I'm aware of the attempt to see Confucianism through a virtue ethical lens, but I'm interested in metaphysics as well.
@BryanVanNordenPhilosophy 6 ай бұрын
The metaphysics of Neo-Confucianism and Platonism are very different.
@davidfoley8546 6 ай бұрын
@@BryanVanNordenPhilosophy Any good work comparing neoconfucian metaphysics with the Western tradition(s) more broadly?
@aucnes Жыл бұрын
heart doctrine
@blackfeatherstill348 Жыл бұрын
Zhuangzi has a similar perspective on the writings of past teachers/sages. "the dregs/dirt of the ancients". Are there any other similarities between their philosophies?
@BryanVanNordenPhilosophy Жыл бұрын
Yes, Wang Yangming is in a wing of Confucianism very influenced by Zhuangzi's ideals.
@mandys1505 3 жыл бұрын
It's a robot 😳🔥whoa.
@sol6835 2 жыл бұрын
Zhu Xi > Wang Yangming
@cho1658 7 ай бұрын
Zhuxi teach you how to be a person while wang teach you how to deal with your career
@BryanVanNordenPhilosophy 6 ай бұрын
Wang would be very unhappy with the claim that he was only teaching you to "deal with your career" as opposed to teaching you "how to be a person."
@albertwoodeasy9021 3 ай бұрын
Another opportunistic misrepresentation of cores of Confucius.
@BryanVanNordenPhilosophy 3 ай бұрын
Can you give an example of a misrepresentation?
@albertwoodeasy9021 3 ай бұрын
@@BryanVanNordenPhilosophy he misquoted or twisted kongzi's words intended to mean human nature should gravitate towards benevolent, compassion and kindness, into that kongzi preached that origins of human nature is benevolent, kind and good, which kongzi never insinuated.