entity Updated 2026-08-26 Topics: Politics

王阳明 / Wang Yangming

Hanji 908 uses Wang Yangming as a later self-cultivation analogy rather than as part of the late-Han narrative. The host says Wang gave up pursuit of poetry and prose because he saw those as minor accomplishments beside sage learning, paralleling the episode’s contrast between “small ways” and more central moral-intellectual work.

王阳明 / Wang Yangming appears in 《资治通鉴·周纪》13丨 公孙鞅苛刻变法惹杀身(1) as a later analogy for collective-responsibility governance. The host says Wang Yangming could teach ordinary people moral harmony while also applying 十家牌法, where one household’s wrongdoing implicated the linked group.

The page is source-scoped. Its role here is not Wang Yangming’s full philosophy, but the episode’s claim that neighbor-group surveillance and liability are a recurring governance instrument, not only a feature of 商鞅’s Qin reforms.

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