Period
Song–Ming
960–1644 CE
The Song and Ming dynasties, when Neo-Confucian thinkers such as Zhu Xi and Wang Yangming renewed Confucianism in dialogue with Buddhism and Daoism.
From the Song dynasty onwards, Confucian scholars answered the long dominance of Buddhism and Daoism with a renewed Confucianism, known in the West as Neo-Confucianism. Zhu Xi’s synthesis of the Northern Song masters became the orthodoxy of the imperial examinations, and in the Ming dynasty Wang Yangming became its most influential critic, relocating moral knowledge in the mind itself.
- Traditions
- Chinese
Philosophers
- Shao Yong1011–1077
- Zhou Dunyi1017–1073
- Zhang Zai1020–1077
- Cheng Hao1032–1085
- Cheng Yi1033–1107
- Zhu Xi1130–1200
- Lu Xiangshan1139–1193
- Chen Liang1143–1194
- Ye Shi1150–1223
- Wang Yangming1472–1529
- Wang Tingxiang1474–1544
- Wang Gen1483–1541
- Luo Rufang1515–1588
- Li Zhi1527–1602
Sources
- Kirill Thompson, Zhu Xi, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Bryan Van Norden, Wang Yangming, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy