Thanks for a wonderfully informative tour. The New Confucian scholar Tu Weiming has interpreted the Confucian tradition in light of Wang Yangming and Mencius. Like his New Confucian mentors, he combines this lineage with a liberal democratic politics, which is such a contrast with Yomeigaku's adoption by militarists in Japan. Intellectual history has fascinating twists and turns as you have so well illustrated.
Interesting read! Overall, just like the remarks you make about Nietzsche, Wang Yangming's ideas probably had little in common with Japanese militarism, which goes back to the Bushido. In that sense also, China does not have a militarist tradition, given the importance allocated to the educated intellectual.
Thanks for a wonderfully informative tour. The New Confucian scholar Tu Weiming has interpreted the Confucian tradition in light of Wang Yangming and Mencius. Like his New Confucian mentors, he combines this lineage with a liberal democratic politics, which is such a contrast with Yomeigaku's adoption by militarists in Japan. Intellectual history has fascinating twists and turns as you have so well illustrated.
Very interesting. Thanks 🙏
Interesting read! Overall, just like the remarks you make about Nietzsche, Wang Yangming's ideas probably had little in common with Japanese militarism, which goes back to the Bushido. In that sense also, China does not have a militarist tradition, given the importance allocated to the educated intellectual.
Well...that was educational.