Li Zhi | Chinese monk | Britannica (original) (raw)

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contribution to Confucianism

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  In Confucianism: Confucian learning in Jin, Yuan, and Ming
  …like-minded, and the radical individualist Li Zhi (1527–1602), who proposed to reduce all human relationships to friendship, broadened Confucianism to accommodate a variety of lifestyles.
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Ming dynasty thought

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  In China: Philosophy and religion
  Rampant iconoclasm climaxed with Li Zhi, a zealous debunker of traditional Confucian morality, who abandoned a bureaucratic career for Buddhist monkhood of a highly unorthodox type. Excesses of this sort provoked occasional suppressions of private academies, periodic persecutions of heretics, and sophisticated counterarguments from traditionalistic, moralistic groups of scholars,…
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