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In 1939, Feng brought out his Xin Lixue ( New Rational Philosophy, or Neo-Lixue ).

Lixue was a philosophical position of a small group of twelfth-century neo-Confucianists ( including Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi, and Zhu Xi ); Feng's book took certain metaphysical notions from their thought and from taoism ( such as li and tao ), analysed and developed them in ways that owed much to the Western philosophical tradition, and produced a rationalistic neo-Confucian metaphysics.

He also developed, in the same way, an account of the nature of morality and of the structure of human moral development.