Wang Yang-ming
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A favorite is Confucian Wang Yang-ming, who taught that "to know and yet not to do is in fact not to know."
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The comparative points of view of Wang Yang-ming and Sun Yat-sen afford a quite clear-cut example of the contrast between an established and unsettled ideology.97.d'Elia translation, cited, pp. 336-345.
From The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I by Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony
Vladislavich, 243 Wang An-shih, 58 Wang Ch'ing-wei, 5, 164, 206 Wang Mang, 58 wang tao, 71 Wang Yang-ming, 80n.,
From The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I by Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony
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