THESIS
2018
Abstract
In the history of Chinese and Western philosophy, Wang Yangming and Immanuel
Kant were concerned with parallel issues in moral philosophy. They established their
moral philosophical systems with comparable conceptions of Liang-chi (conscience
or an innate sense of right and wrong) and free will as their core, and showed
analogous views in prioritizing the moral subject. Due to divergences between
Chinese and Western philosophy, and their forms of argumentation and
conceptualization, there are significant differences between them. I will analyze how,
nonetheless, the categories established by Kant are important to the interpretation of
Wang Yangming’s moral philosophy. In this thesis, I will first analyze the ethical
subject in the moral philosophical systems of Kant and Wang Ya...[
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In the history of Chinese and Western philosophy, Wang Yangming and Immanuel
Kant were concerned with parallel issues in moral philosophy. They established their
moral philosophical systems with comparable conceptions of Liang-chi (conscience
or an innate sense of right and wrong) and free will as their core, and showed
analogous views in prioritizing the moral subject. Due to divergences between
Chinese and Western philosophy, and their forms of argumentation and
conceptualization, there are significant differences between them. I will analyze how,
nonetheless, the categories established by Kant are important to the interpretation of
Wang Yangming’s moral philosophy. In this thesis, I will first analyze the ethical
subject in the moral philosophical systems of Kant and Wang Yangming, and
secondly discuss the value and significance of their self-cultivation theories, which is
the original contribution of this thesis.
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