Ming dynasty Neo-Confucian philosopher who developed the School of Mind (xinxue) — mind is the ultimate reality — and the unity of knowledge and action: genuine knowledge necessarily issues in action.
The unity of knowledge and action (zhixing heyi): genuine moral knowledge automatically produces corresponding action; if one knows what is right and fails to do it, one does not truly know. The innate knowledge of the good (liangzhi) is present in all persons — moral cultivation is eliminating obscurations, not adding new knowledge.
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