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28Returning to the Root: The Formative Political Career and Intellectual Development of Nie Bao, 1487-1548The World of the Orient 122 (1): 145-172. 2024.
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242Criticism and recommendations are very much welcome. Please don't hesitate to contact me with them.
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15Correction to: Ni, Peimin 倪培民, On the Philosophy of Confucian Gongfu 儒家功夫哲學論Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 22 (3): 523-523. 2023.
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7Ni, Peimin 倪培民, On the Philosophy of Confucian Gongfu 儒家功夫哲學論Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 22 (3): 517-521. 2023.
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207Wang Yangming in Beijing: "If I do not awaken others, who will do so?"Journal of Chinese History 1 (1): 59-91. 2017.After being recalled to Beijing in 1510 for evaluation and reassignment in the wake of his two-year exile to Guizhou and his period of service as a magistrate, Wang Yangming was assigned to a succession of posts at the capital that kept him there through 1512. During that short time, he remained disillusioned with the Ming court and high politics and chose to put his energies into fostering a philosophical movement. He believed that by restoring the “way of master-disciple relations and friendsh…Read more
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101Wang Yangming in Chuzhou and Nanjing, 1513-1516 "I have only two words to say: 'Be truthful.'"In Kenneth Swope (ed.), The Ming World, Routledge. pp. 322-342. 2019.
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159Wang Yangming 王陽明 (1472-1529) was one of China's most influential Ruist philosophers. The publication widely regarded as most representative of his Ruism is the three-volume Record of Instructions for Practice. Wang Yangming’s followers kept records of statements he made and conversations he held when discussing his Ruist learning with them. During and after his lifetime, these records were compiled in three volumes. The third volume was gathered together and edited by his ardent follower Qian D…Read more
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399Draft Chapter for Chinese Philosophy and Its Thinkers: From Ancient Times to the Present Day
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41A School of Mind Philosopher in Ming China: Nie Bao’s Formative Political Career and Intellectual Trajectory, 1487-1548In 第二十一届明史國際學術研討會 論文匯編 Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Conference of the Chinese Ming History Society, . pp. 204-239. 2021.Nie Bao 聶豹 (1487-1563) was a Neo-Confucian philosopher and scholar-official of sixteenth-century Ming China. In his Ming ru xue an 明儒學案 (Case studies of Ming Confucians), Huang Zongxi 黃宗羲placed him in the Jiangxi (Jiangyou 江右) group of Wang Yangming followers. The goal of this article is to provide a sketch of Nie Bao’s political trajectory and intellectual development from his early years until he was imprisoned in 1547, as well as translation of important documents pertaining to that trajector…Read more
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2048Studying Wang Yangming: History of a Sinological FieldKindle Direct Publishing. 2022.Wang Yangming (1472-1529) and his School of Mind dominated the intellectual world of sixteenth-century Ming China (1368-1644), and his Confucian philosophy has since remained an essential component of East Asian philosophical discourse. Yet, the volume of publications on him in the Western-language literature has consistently paled in comparison to the volume of scholarship on classical Chinese philosophy, modern Chinese philosophy, Buddhism, and Daoism. Studying Wang Yangming: History of a Sino…Read more
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653Wang Yangming: Record of Instructions for Practice Volume III 王陽明 傳習錄下Kindle Direct Publishing. 2023.Wang Yangming 王陽明 (1472-1529) was one of China's most influential Ruist philosophers. The publication widely regarded as most representative of his Ruism is the three-volume Record of Instructions for Practice. Wang Yangming’s followers kept records of statements he made and conversations he held when discussing his Ruist learning with them. During and after his lifetime, these records were compiled in three volumes. The third volume was gathered together and edited by his ardent follower Qian D…Read more
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1112In Doing Good and Ridding Evil in Ming China: The Political Career of Wang Yangming, George Israel offers an account of this influential Neo-Confucian philosopher’s official career and military campaigns. While his contribution to China’s intellectual history and the outlines of his political life are well known, the relation between his thought and what he did in his capacity as a Ming official has been given less attention. Prior writing on Wang Yangming has passed judgment on his ideas by eit…Read more
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7In Doing Good and Ridding Evil in Ming China: The Political Career of Wang Yangming, George Israel offers an account of this influential Neo-Confucian philosopher's official career and military campaigns. While his contribution to China's intellectual history and the outlines of his political life are well known, the relation between his thought and what he did in his capacity as a Ming official has been given less attention.Prior writing on Wang Yangming has passed judgment on his ideas by eith…Read more
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11Journal of Wu Yubi: The Path to Sagehood. Translated, with introduction and commentary, by M. Theresa KelleherJournal of the American Oriental Society 135 (3). 2021.The Journal of Wu Yubi: The Path to Sagehood. Translated, with introduction and commentary, by M. Theresa Kelleher. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., 2013. Pp. xliv + 187. $40 ; $13.
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23The Eight Virtues of Liangzhi: An Analysis of the Fundamental Characteristics of Wang Yangming’s Central DoctrineJournal of World Philosophies 5 (2): 73-93. 2020.On the premise that the good knowing is the originary reality, this article provides a synopsis of Wang Yangming’s exposition of the fundamental essence of liangzhi. The self-existent resemblances of the originary reality are outlined and summarized as the eight virtues of liangzhi: voidness, intelligence, luminousness, awareness, constancy, happiness, true I, and purity. These eight virtues are, however, ultimately subsumed by the middle, which governs them in common. The middle is the original…Read more
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10Zhan Ruoshui at his Dake Academy on Mount Xiqiao, 1517-1521: Scholarship, Pedagogy, and PhilosophyJournal of World Philosophies 4 (1): 36-54. 2019.Zhan Ruoshui 湛若水 is a prominent scholar-official and Confucian philosopher of Ming China. Like his contemporary Wang Yangming, he served in several official capacities during the reigns ofthree mid-Ming emperors, earned a reputation as an important Confucian teacher, gained a substantial following of students, and was critical to the onset of the jiangxue 講學 movement of the mid-Ming and the academy building associated with it. He also elaborated a sophisticated Confucian philosophy, leaving behi…Read more
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29The transformation of the Wang Yangming scholarship in the West, ca. 1960–1980: a historical essayAsian Philosophy 28 (2): 135-156. 2018.ABSTRACTStudents of Ming philosophy and the thought of Wang Yangming likely know that the 1960s–1970s was a period during which many scholarships in this field of study were produced in the English language. Indeed, it has been almost half a century since a group of scholars came together at the University of Hawaii to present papers on Wang Yangming in commemoration of the fifth centenary of his birth. That group included, for example, Wing-tsit Chan, David Nivison, and Du Weiming. These schola…Read more
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22The Renaissance of Wang Yangming Studies in the People's Republic of ChinaPhilosophy East and West 66 (3): 1001-1019. 2016.The revival of Confucianism in China since the Reform and Opening is a topic that has received much scholarly attention. Beginning in the 1980s, this revival has included the establishment of a multitude of research institutes and study societies; local, national, and international conferences and symposiums; the restoration of historical sites; the introduction of a Confucian curriculum into schools; and an increasingly voluminous scholarship.1 Reasons for the revival include government policy …Read more
George L. Israel
Middle Georgia State University
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Middle Georgia State UniversityRegular Faculty
Macon, GA, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Asian Philosophy |