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" He also pronounced the doctrine that knowledge is the beginning of action and action is the completion of knowledge— that they are one. "
Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan - Page 12
1892
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The Chinese Mind: Essentials of Chinese Philosophy and Culture

Charles A. Moore - 1978 - 432 pages
..."Knowledge is the crystallization of the will to act, and action is the task of carrying out that knowledge; knowledge is the beginning of action, and action is the completion of knowledge." 14 Wang is usually credited with the innovation of the doctrine, but, while he was the first one to...
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Self, Sign, and Symbol

Mark Neuman, Michael Payne - 1987 - 196 pages
...concept which refers to the "unity of knowledge and action" (chih hsing ho yi) in Confucian thought: knowledge is the beginning of action and action is the completion of knowledge. 14. The Fashion System, trans. Matthew Ward and Richard Howard (New York: Hill and Wang, 1973), p....
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Readings in Eastern Religions

Harold G. Coward, Eva K. Neumaier-Dargyay, Ronald Neufeldt - 1988 - 377 pages
...knowledge is the crystallization of the will to act and action is the task of carrying out that knowledge; knowledge is the beginning of action and action is the completion of knowledge. Notes 1 Readings taken from Study Aids for World Religions, Vol. 1, pp. C7-C12. 2 Readings taken from...
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East-West Dialogue in Knowledge and Higher Education

Ruth Hayhoe, Julia Pan - 1996 - 340 pages
...developed "practical learning." They welcomed the doctrine of Wang Yangming (1472-1529) of China that knowledge is the beginning of action and action is the completion of knowledge — that they are, in effect, one. The Sirhak scholars believed that practical learning could be developed...
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Mangoes Or Bananas?: The Quest for an Authentic Asian Christian Theology

Yung Hwa - 1997 - 292 pages
...Knowledge is the crystallization of the will to act, and action is the task of carrying out that knowledge; knowledge is the beginning of action, and action is the completion of knowledge (Ch'uan-hsi lu, Section 5; cited in Chan 1967:15). Applied to Christian theology, this would be another...
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Excel Senior High School Studies of Religion

Louise Fleming - 2001 - 360 pages
...He thought that knowledge was an inner matter, although it could not be separated from action. Thus, knowledge is the beginning of action, and action is the completion of knowledge. To assist in the gaining of knowledge, he emphasised intuition, through meditation and moral reflection....
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Comparative Political Culture in the Age of Globalization: An Introductory ...

Hwa Yol Jung - 2002 - 468 pages
...concept which refers to the "unity of knowledge and action" (chih hsing ho yi) in Confucian thought: knowledge is the beginning of action and action is the completion of knowledge. 14. The Fashion System, trans. Matthew Ward and Richard Howard (New York: Hill and Wang, 1973), p....
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The Unity of Knowledge and Action: Toward a Nonrepresentational Theory of ...

Warren G. Frisina - 2002 - 280 pages
...when only action is mentioned, knowledge is included" (Chan, 1963, 669). In another place he says: "Knowledge is the beginning of action and action is the completion of knowledge. Learning to be a sage involves only one effort. Knowledge and action should not be separated" (Wang,...
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O - Z

Xinzhong Yao - 2003 - 482 pages
...practice, nor could it be fulh put into practice without understanding it intellectually. For Wang, 'knowledge is the beginning of action, and action is the completion of knowledge'. His third contribution was embodied in the phrase 'the extension of innate knowledge' (¡iangzfii)....
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Eastern Religions: Origins, Beliefs, Practices, Holy Texts, Sacred Places

Vasudha Narayanan - 2005 - 560 pages
...these insights were summed up in his theory of the unity of knowledge and action. Wang's claim that "knowledge is the beginning of action, and action is the completion of knowledge" implies that knowledge of something, for example of virtue, necessarily includes acting in a like,...
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