Wang Yangming’s Reductionist Account of Practical Necessity: General and Particular
In this article, I argue that we can have a plausible account of the experience of practical necessity, namely, the experience that some action is necessitated for someone, by referring to the philosophy of Wang Yangming (1472-1529), a Neo-Confucian philosopher in Ming Dynasty China. The experience...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Netherlands
[2020]
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Sophia
Year: 2020, Volume: 59, Issue: 3, Pages: 413-436 |
| Further subjects: | B
Fulfillment of self
B Practical necessity B Wang Yangming B Constitution of self |
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| Summary: | In this article, I argue that we can have a plausible account of the experience of practical necessity, namely, the experience that some action is necessitated for someone, by referring to the philosophy of Wang Yangming (1472-1529), a Neo-Confucian philosopher in Ming Dynasty China. The experience of practical necessity, according to Wang, can be of two kinds: general (to be a human) and particular (to be a particular person), both having their bases on human nature and related to the fulfillment of the self. I argue that this account fares better than the non-reductionist account and other reductionist accounts, including Christine Korsgaard’s, which explains the experience in terms of the constitution of the self. |
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| ISSN: | 1873-930X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sophia
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11841-019-0711-z |