Zhu XI

male, deceased (1200)
Zhu Xi or Chu Hsi (born October 18, 1130, Yuxi, Fujian province, China - died April 23, 1200, China) was a Song Dynasty (960-1279) Confucian...
Han Yu

Han Yu

male, deceased (824)
Han Yu (768—824), born in Nanyang, Henan, China, was a precursor of Neo-Confucianism as well as an essayist and poet. The "Indiana Companion" ca...
Shao Yong

Shao Yong

male, deceased (1077) (China)
Shao Yong, named Shào Kāngjié (邵康節) after death, was a Song Dynasty Chinese philosopher, cosmologist, poet and historian who greatly influence...
Hayashi Razan

Hayashi Razan

male, deceased (1657)
Hayashi Razan, also known as Hayashi Dōshun, was a Japanese Neo-Confucian philosopher, serving as an advisor to the first three shoguns of the T...
Kaibara Ekken

Kaibara Ekken

male, deceased (1714)
Kaibara Ekken or Ekiken (貝原 益軒, also known as Atsunobu (篤信), 1630 - October 5, 1714) was a Japanese Neo-Confucianist philosopher and botanist dur...

Philip J. Ivanhoe

male
Philip J. Ivanhoe is an historian of Chinese thought, particularly of Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism. He is a professor at the City University...
Fujiwara Seika

Fujiwara Seika

male, deceased (1617)
Fujiwara Seika was a Japanese philosopher, and a leading neo-Confucian of the early Tokugawa Period. Like Hayashi Razan (1583-1657), he had studied...
Li Zhi

Li Zhi

male, deceased (1602)
Li Zhi (1527-1602) was a prominent Chinese philosopher, historian and writer in the late Ming dynasty. He was born in Jinjiang, Fujian province,...
Yamazaki Ansai

Yamazaki Ansai

male, deceased (1682)
Yamazaki Ansai was a Japanese philosopher and scholar. He began as a Buddhist monk, but eventually came to follow the teachings of Neo-Confucian...
Dai Zhen

Dai Zhen

male, deceased (1777)
Dai Zhen was a notable scholar of the Qing Dynasty from Xiuning in Anhui province. A versatile scholar, he made great contributions to mathematics,...