Abstract

The founder of Taizhou 泰州 Learning Wang Gen’s 王艮 idea of “innate moral knowing as pre-formed and self-present” underwent development and expansion by Wang Bi 王襞 and Xu Yue 徐樾, until it reached Luo Rufang, who fused it with the [Book of] Changes and Chan 禅 [Buddhism] and proposed his guiding precept of “the infant’s innate moral mind, without learning or consideration,” taking the idea of innate moral knowing as pre-formed and developing it to an extreme.