Wang Yangming Enlightened
1502
Exiled to a malarial frontier post in Guizhou for criticizing a eunuch, the Ming scholar Wang Yangming sat in a stone tomb he had prepared for himself and had a sudden mystical insight: principle was not in things but in the mind. Neo-Confucianism's most radical school of innate knowledge was born.
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Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.