Pure knowing ( liang zhi ) as moral feeling and moral cognition

Wang Yangming’s phenomenology of approval and disapproval

Datos Bibliográficos

ID15294167
AutoresYinghua Lu (0000-0003-4094-7066, Zhejiang Gongshang University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen27
Número4
Páginas309-323
Fecha de publicación2017-10-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAsian Philosophy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0955-2367 • E-ISSN: 1469-2961
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09552367.2017.1391500
OpenAlexW2768137899
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas9

The main goals of this paper are two. First, it articulates what kinds of knowing pure knowing (liang zhi) is in its narrow sense (approval and disproval) (1) pure knowing as the capacity of moral judgment; (2) pure knowing (of Heavenly principle) as moral knowledge and standard. Besides, it analyses pure knowing’s different features through a phenomenological description. All these aspects of pure knowing are tied by moral feeling. Second, this paper addresses two sets of theoretical problems that have been raised in Confucian discourse with respect to pure knowing and Heavenly principle, primarily those that render Wang’s notion of pure knowing to be static recognition toward particular moral issues, or immediate response, which reading cannot really admit the possibilities of extension, reflection, moral cultivation, and reform of institution; and those that understand pure knowing to be merely abstract without concrete content, such as merely being a metaphysical substance. When properly understood, that is, from the perspective of moral emotions, Wang Yangming’s account of pure knowing provides for the possibilities of enhancement and cultivation, while insisting that the content of pure knowing is always accessible to us

Cognition · Epistemology · Feeling · Metaphysics · Moral psychology · Phenomenology (philosophy · Reading (process · Chinese history and philosophy · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social Psychology

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