Ming official, general and philosopher who founded the Confucian School of Mind, 心学. His teaching that knowing and acting are one, 知行合一, is a common motto in China today.
The Neo-Confucian philosophical school founded by Wang Yangming. Its central doctrines - 致良知 (extending innate moral knowledge) and 知行合一 (unity of knowledge and action) - broke with Zhu Xi orthodoxy and deeply influenced later East Asian thought, including Meiji-era Japan.
