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naturalism. rationalism. Wang Chong (born 27 ce, Kueiji, China—died 100?, Kueiji) was one of the most original and independent Chinese thinkers of the Han period (206 bce –220 ce). A rationalistic naturalist during an age of superstition, Wang dared attack the belief in omens and portents that had begun to creep into the Confucian doctrines.
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Wang Chong (Chinese: 王充; pinyin: Wáng Chōng; Wade–Giles: Wang Ch'ung; 27 – c. 97 AD), [1] courtesy name Zhongren (仲任), was a Chinese astronomer, meteorologist, naturalist, philosopher, and writer active during the Eastern Han dynasty. He developed a rational, secular, naturalistic and mechanistic account of the world and of human ...
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Wang Chong’s main work was the Lun-Heng (論衡) (first translated in 1911 as Balanced Enquiries, and since as Fair Discussions, or Critical Essays). Wang was a mechanist, denying that heaven has any purpose for man, whether benevolent or hostile. To say that heaven provides us with food and clothing, he declared, is to say that it acts as our farmer o...
After his death, Wang’s ideas became well known and had an influence on the resurgence of a new form of Daoism, sometimes called "neo-Daoism," which developed a more rational, naturalistic metaphysical account of the world, free from most of the mysticism and superstitionthat had infected Daoist thought for so long. In the twentieth century, his cr...
Conference on Seventeenth-Century Chinese Thought and William Theodore De Bary. 1975. The Unfolding of Neo-Confucianism. Studies in Oriental Culture, No. 10. New York: Columbia University Press. IS...De Bary, William Theodore, and Irene Bloom. 1979. Principle and Practicality: Essays in Neo-Confucianism and Practical Learning. Neo-Confucian studies. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 023...Vergilius Ture Anselm. 1950. A History of Philosophical Systems. New York: Philosophical Library.Wang Chong (Wang Ch’ung) (25—100 C.E.) Wang Chong (Wang Ch’ung) was an early Chinese philosopher who wrote during the Eastern Han dynasty. He is often interpreted as offering a materialist and skeptical philosophical system. Wang’s essays on physics, astronomy, ethics, methodology, and criticism are collected in the Lunheng (“Balanced ...
Jun 8, 2018 · Wang Ch'ung may be described as a rationalist in the sense that he sought explanations that were intellectually satisfying to his reason; as a naturalist insofar as he believed in the independent working of the world of nature; and as a protestant as he rejected current beliefs as ill-founded, misleading, and pernicious.
Wang Chong lived about one century after Confucianism had emerged as imperial ideology. In this process, the “rationalist” and socially minded philosophy taught by Confucius had been integrated with cosmological doctrines extraneous to the letter of his teaching.
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About this book. This book is a study of the methodological, metaphysical, and epistemological work of the Eastern Han Dynasty period scholar Wang Chong. It presents Wang’s philosophical thought as a unique and syncretic culmination of a number of ideas developed in earlier Han and Warring States philosophy. Wang’s philosophical methodology ...
