心学

心學
xīnxué
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 School of Mind (Neo-Confucian idealist school)

Examples

HSK 4
Tā zuìjìn kāishǐ yánjiū xīnxué.
He recently started studying the School of Mind.
HSK 6
阳明心学集大成
Wáng Yángmíng shì xīnxué de jídàchéng zhě.
Wang Yangming was the great synthesizer of the School of Mind.
HSK 7-9
Xīnxué qiángdiào " zhì liángzhī ".
The School of Mind emphasizes 'extending innate moral knowledge'.

Tips

history
心学 emerged from Lu Jiuyuan (陆九渊) in the Song and was developed by Wang Yangming (王阳明) in the Ming. Its rival 理学 (School of Principle, Zhu Xi) located moral truth in external things; 心学 located it in the mind itself.

Stroke Order

xīn
xué