Cheng Hao
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Chéng Hào (, 1032–1085),
Courtesy name Bóchún (), was a Chinese philosopher and politician from
Luoyang,
China. In his youth, he and his younger brother
Cheng Yi were students of
Zhou Dunyi, one of the architects of
Neo-Confucian cosmology. His
philosophy was
dualistic (between
all that is tangible and
all that is intangible) and
pantheistic (believing that all that is intangible is the same thing, such as
god, the
human nature,
feelings,
actions (we see things acting, but not the action itself), movement (likewise),
social roles and relations (likewise), chance, etc., and that such a unified, universal principle is ''
in'' everything that is sensible [rather than in
an external reality as in
Platonism]); among his
quotes are "outside ''
dao'' there are no
things and outside things there is no ''dao''", "we call it god to emphasize the wonderful mystery of principle in ten thousand things, just as we call it lord (''di'') to characterize its being the ruler of events" and "in terms of the reality, it is change; in terms of principle, it is ''dao''; in terms of its function, it is god; in terms of its destiny in a human being, it is human nature".
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