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Wang Yangming's Four Sentences of doctrine and Zhengxin Gongfu

Cheng Nian-q

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Wang Yangming's four sentences of doctrine embodied main contents of congenital learning and acquired learning. There were two kinds of gongfu cited by Wang Yangming and Wang Ji. One was gongfu about thing-it-self, the other was gongfu used to restore thing-it-self. The most important view point of Yang Ming Xue was to understand thing-it-self.

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Wang Yangming's four sentences of doctrine embodied main contents of congenital learning and acquired learning. There were two kinds of gongfu cited by Wang Yangming and Wang Ji. One was gongfu about thing-it-self, the other was gongfu used to restore thing-it-self. The most important view point of Yang Ming Xue was to understand thing-it-self.

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Wang Yangming's four sentences of doctrine embodied main contents of congenital learning and acquired learning. There were two kinds of gongfu cited by Wang Yangming and Wang Ji. One was gongfu about thing-it-self, the other was gongfu used to restore thing-it-self. The most important view point of Yang Ming Xue was to understand thing-it-self.

Key concepts: Doctrine, Embodied cognition, Philosophy, Point (geometry), Literature, Art, Epistemology, Theology

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