Zhu Xi
ZHU XI (1130–1200), philosopher, scholar, and formulator of what would for centuries be regarded as mainstream neo-Confucianism. The son of an official, Zhu Xi passed the highest civil s...
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Chu Hsi
fl. c. 1175
Chinese scholar who stated in his Chu Tsi Shu Chieh Yao that fossils were once living organisms. The work also contains discussion of cosmology, and Chu maintained that the univers...
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Zhu Xi (Chu Hsi)(1130–1200)
Zhu Xi was a leading scholar, thinker, and teacher of the revival of philosophical Confucianism known at the time as Daoxue (learning of the way), often referred to ...
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Chu Hsi (1130-1200) was one of the greatest Chinese scholars and philosophers. The system of Neo-Confucianism of which Chu Hsi is regarded as the spokesman represents a summary of doctrines of his pre...
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