Bishop Joseph Butler and Wang Yangming
Chang, Peter T. C.![Bishop Joseph Butler and Wang Yangming](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/193/19370963/CHSBZCOP0319370963.jpg)
This book is a comparative study of the Anglican Bishop Joseph Butler's and Neo-Confucianist Wang Yangming's ethical enterprise. It first analyses, within their respective historical context, the two thinkers' overarching worldviews and their seminal conception of conscience / liang-chih as a person's supreme moral guide. The English bishop and the Chinese philosopher-military general are then brought into dialogue by way of a comparing and co...