•Our objective, then, should be to keep qi in control through balancing it with li. Then we will act in a proper way. This is the Neo-Confucian philosophy of human nature.
•Also borrowing from ancient Confucianism, Zhu Xi advocated the investigation of things in nature and in human ideas is a way to uncover moral principles.
•This is somewhat reminiscent of the ancient idea that the world around us represents moral principles, so we have to understand the patterns of the nature and in human life to better understand how we should behave.