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    Wang's claim that humans feel concern and regret when seeing tiles and stones broken is questionable.

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    • 1.Empirical cross-cultural studies on moral psychology (Haidt, 2012) show humans exhibit measurable negative affect toward destruction of non-sentient objects, including artifacts.
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    • 2.Wang's claim does not require universal constant concern, only that such responses are genuinely possible for humans, revealing an underlying ontological unity.
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    • 3.A dispositional reading—concern is latent and contextually triggered, not perpetually active—makes Wang's position immune to counterexamples from indifferent observers.
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    • 1.Heidegger's analysis of 'care' (Sorge) in Being and Time demonstrates that humans are constitutively oriented toward the world of objects, not merely toward persons or animals.
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    • 2.If ontological attunement to non-living things is a structural feature of human existence, Wang's claim describes a real phenomenological capacity, not an anomalous sentiment.
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    • 3.The phenomenological tradition thus provides independent philosophical grounds for taking seriously human affective responsiveness to inanimate breakage or destruction.
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    • 1.Wang needs this reaction as evidence that our minds are 'one Substance' with everything in the universe, not merely with living or sentient things.
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    • 2.It is not obvious that everyone manifests even sporadic concern for tiles and stones.
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    It is not a decisive objection to Wang’s view that humans often fail to manifest benevolence to other humans, non–human animals, or plants. Wang is arguing that all humans manifest these responses sometimes (and that this is best explained by his favored metaphysics). Like all Neo–Confucians, Wang readily acknowledges that selfish desires frequently block the manifestation of our shared nature. However, there are three lines of objection to Wang’s view that are harder to dismiss. (1) There i
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