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  1. Dec 2019
    1. After the Ming collapse, Qing critics would later decry Wang’s influ-ence as too abstract, passive, and individual-centered. This contributedto the view that Ming learning had fostered a righteous morality overpractical technology. Neo-Confucian classical training in the schools ofboth Zhu Xi and Wang Yangming taught Ming officials to assert thatethical conduct was the root of good government, while technology wasa matter for craftsmen and inferiors.

      Interesting connection with AET in that AET would value a lot of Wang's approach whilst also valuing technology (though not necessarily equally -- the primacy of being etc).

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