Asian philosophers confucius

The philosophy of Confucius emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity.( Itinuro nya sa mga kababayan niya
ang kagandahang asal, karunungan at katapatan. )

mencius

Wang fu

WANG MANG

The central philosophy of Mencius is the belief that man is innately benevolent, but because of immoral acts that prevail in the society, his sense of moral changes. Mao, in fact, facetiously proposed the theory that Hunanese are natural rebels because they eat so many red peppers. Wang Mang, courtesy name Jujun, was a Han Dynasty official who seized the throne from the Liu family and founded the Xin , ruling AD 923.
Xunzi believed man's inborn tendencies need to be curbed through education and ritual, counter to Mencius's view that man is innately good. he considered Han learning as too obsessed with philology and textual criticism and not enough emphasis on pragmatism. Zheng is notable for his syncretic attempt to bridge the two centuries of rivalry between the two schools. Zengzi, the purported author of the Great Learning. Chen Tuan has a good command of primordial Yi learning, teaches River Chart and Luo River Book as well as Infinite and Taiji Charts. Ge Hong was a minor southern official during the Jn Dynasty of China, best known for his interest in Daoism, alchemy, and techniques of longevity. He did not believe human nature was inherently good as Mencius had written, nor inherently bad as had written, but came into existence as a mixture of both. Zhang is sometimes pictured riding on a tiger. Zhang Jue ] was the leader of the Yellow Turban rebels during the late Han Dynasty period of Chinese history. He was said to be a follower of Taoism and a sorcerer. Zhang's legend is that of indifference to fame and wealth.

XUN ZI

YAN YUAN ZENG XUAN ZISI CHEN TUAN GE HONG

YANG XIONG

ZHANG DAOLING ZHANG JUE

ZHANG SANFENG

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ZOU YAN

AN HYANG Gil Jae

He is credited with writingin part or in whole a work known by his name, the Zhuangzi, which expresses a philosophy which is skeptical, arguing that life is limited and knowledge to be gained is unlimited. His teachings combined and systematized two current theories during the Warring States period: Yin-Yang and the Five Elements/Phases He strove to replace Buddhism with Confucianism. Gil Jae or Kil Jae was one of the NeoConfucian scholars, politicians and writers of the Korean Goryoe Dynasty and early Joseon Dynasty was a Korean politician, poet, Neo-Confucian scholar, and thinker, writer of the Joseon dynasty. Lee Lyangwas Korean Joseon Dynasty's politicians and powerful man from royal familys Jeonju Lee cleans. Known for his literature and calligraphy skills, he viewed himself as lacking in the requisite skills for kingship and believed that Sejong was destined to become king. Seol Chong is best remembered for regularizing the idu and gugyeol scripts, which were the first systems for representing the Korean language in Chinese characters. was a Korean Joseon and Japanese-ruled Korean bureaucrat, politician, liberalism activists and social activists. He coined the term "life studies" for an integrated approach to the issues of life, death, and nature in contemporary society. Nishitani refrained from drawing "practical social conscience into philosophical and religious ideas, preferring to think about the insight of the individual rather than the reform of the social order. was a prominent 19th-century Japanese agricultural leader, philosopher, moralist and economist. He was appointed in 1987 to head the controversial International Research Center for Japanese Studies, otherwise known by the abbreviation of Nichibunken, established by Prime MinisterYasuhiro Nakasone to function as both a centralized academic intelligence body collecting and classifying all available information about Japanese culture, both within Japan and abroad, and as a center for the creative theorization of the alleged Japanese "uniqueness".

Nam Gon Lee Lyang Prince Yangnyeong

SEOL CHONG

PARK JUNG-YANG Masahiro Morioka Keiji Nishitani

Ninomiya Sontoku Takeshi Umehara

Yoshishige Abe Abhinavagupta

While still a student, he began writing literary criticism and was interested in the development of naturalism. He was also considered an important musician, poet, dramatist, exegete, theologian, and logicia].a polymathic personality who exercised strong influences on Indian culture. Abhinavagupta was strongly influenced by Buddhist logic. was an Indian monk from Ujjain in central India, who is best known for his prolific Chinese translations which include Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakoa. He earned reputation as an established academic in the field of philosophy and religion and taught at Gujrat College in Ahmedabad, Dakkan College in Poona, and Usmania University in Hyderabad where he retired as Professor and Head of the Philosophy Department. Dharmapla developed the theory that the external things do not exist and consciousness only exists. KHANA) was an Indian poet and legendary astrologer, who composed in the medieval Bengali language between the ninth and 12th centuries AD.

Paramartha

Abdul Bari Nadvi

Dharmapala of Nalanda Khana (poet)