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An Existential-Phenomenological Analysis of The Mind-Thing Relation in Wang Yangming’s Philosophy

Cao, Pengyuan
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1467479079

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2016, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, East Asian Studies.
Abstract This thesis investigates the Mind-Thing relation in Wang Yangming’s philosophy from an existential-phenomenological perspective. As is well known, a critical step for Wang Yangming in detaching from Zhu Xi’s system is his revision and reinterpretation of the Great Learning. Things, in Wang Yangming’s hermeneutics, refer to the objects upon which the subjective intentionality dwells and discloses itself. In light of the resemblances between Wang Yangming’s yi and Edmund Husserl’s “intentionality,” this thesis scrutinizes Wang Yangming’s renowned proposition that “nothing exists outside of Mind” and the metaphor of the quiescent flower in the mountain. It further analyzes Wang Yangming’s position on the ontological relation between Mind and Thing “prior to” their synthesis based on the thought of Sartre and Heidegger. Drawing upon the renowned claims of Wang Yangming’s that “Mind is Principle” and “unification of consciousness and action,” this thesis then provides an analysis of the ethical meaning of Wang Yangming’s Mind-Thing relation, arguing that it can be better understood in light of existentialist notions such as possibility, ektasis and action.
Melissa Curley (Committee Chair)
Ying Zhang (Committee Co-Chair)
Tamar Rudavsky (Committee Co-Chair)
90 p.
Comparative; Philosophy
Neo-Confucianism, Existentialism, Philosophy, Comparative Studies, Wang Yangming, Ontology, Ethics

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  • Cao, P. (2016). An Existential-Phenomenological Analysis of The Mind-Thing Relation in Wang Yangming’s Philosophy [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1467479079

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Cao, Pengyuan. An Existential-Phenomenological Analysis of The Mind-Thing Relation in Wang Yangming’s Philosophy. 2016. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1467479079.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Cao, Pengyuan. "An Existential-Phenomenological Analysis of The Mind-Thing Relation in Wang Yangming’s Philosophy." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1467479079

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