A study of the most significant debate in Korean Neo-Confucianism between the two most eminent Neo-Confucian thinkers, summarizing their philosophies and providing refreshing insights into Confucian language and culture
This comparative study of Yi T'oegye (1501-1570) and Yi Yulgok (1536-1584), Korea's two most eminent Neo-Confucian thinkers, is a seminal work on the Four-Seven Debate, the most significant and controversial intellectual event in the Korean Confucian tradition. The Four-Seven thesis, a magnificent example of East Asian Confucian discourse at its best, remains each thinker's masterpiece, a compressed but integrated systemization of metaphysics, ethics, and spirituality. It addresses fascinating philosophical, moral, and psychological questions about the fundamental problem of feelings and emotions, as well as their implications for moral and spiritual self-transformation.
This book is indispensable for those interested in Korean thought or intellectual history. It will enable specialists in Confucian studies to understand unique paradigms of Korean Neo-Confucianism. It will stimulate comparative philosophers or religionists and general humanists to consider Korean Neo-Confucianism seriously as a major resource for understanding East Asian philosophy and religion.
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US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
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Höhe: 228 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 20 mm
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978-0-7914-2276-2 (9780791422762)
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Edward Y. J. Chung is Assistant Professor of Religion and Asian Studies, University of Prince Edward Island.
Foreword by Julia Ching
Preface
Acknowledgments
A Note on Style and Translation
Abbreviations
Historical Background: Korean Neo-Confucianism
The Rise of Neo-Confucianism in the Koryo Period
Neo-Confucianism in the Early Choson Dynasty
Songnihak before T'oegye and Yulgok in Sixteenth-Century Korea
Yi Hwang (T'oegye, 1501-1570)
Yi I (Yulgok, 1536-1584)
Why the Four-Seven Controversy Developed in Korea:Some Historical Reflections
I. Philosophical Introduction: The Fruitful Four-Seven Legacy
The Locus Classicus for the Ideas of the Four Beginnings and the Seven Emotions
The Ch'eng-Chu Interpretation in China
Questions and Issues Raised in the Korean Four-Seven Debates /
II.T'oegye's Four-Seven Thesis
Kobong's Challenge to T'oegye: The Continuum of the Four and the Seven
T'oegye's Response to Kobong's First Challenge: The Distinction of the Four and the Seven
Kobong's Second Challenge: The Inseparability of I and Ki and the Oneness of Human Nature
T'oegye's Revised Four-Seven Theory of "Alternate Manifestation"
The Last Exchange on the Moon-Moonlight Analogy: Unity or Duality?
III.Yulgok's Four-Seven Thesis
Human Mind and Moral Mind: The Unity and Duality of the Mind
The Continuum of Feelings: The Four in the Seven
The Oneness of Human Nature
A Critique of T'oegye's Theory of Alternate Manifestation: The Working of Ki
The Inseparability and Harmony of I and Ki
IV. Practical Implications for T'oegye
Principle and Self-Cultivation
Feelings and the Learning of Mind-and-Heart (Simhak)
Sagehood and the Learning of Reverential Seriousness (Kyonghak)
Self-Cultivation as an Ethico-Spiritual Ideal
V. Practical Implications For Yulgok
Good And Evil: The Nourishment Of Ki
Self-Cultivation And Emotional Integration
Sagehood And Learning Sincerity (Songhak)
Practical Learning (Sirhak) As An Ethico-Political Ideal
VI. Conclusions: A Comparison Of T'oegye And Yulgok
Epilogue: The I-Ki And Four-Seven Controversy After T'oegye And Yulgok
The School Of The Primacy Of
The School Of The Primacy Ofki
The Eclectic School
Appendix 1
T'oegye's Diagram Of The Mind, Human Nature, And Feelings
Appendix 2
Yulgok's Diagram Ofthe Human Mind And The Moral Mind
Appendix 3
A Chronological And Annotated List Ofyi T'oegye's Major Writings Cited
Appendix 4
A Chronological And Annotated List Ofyi Yulgok's Major Writings Cited
Notes
Glossary:
Major Terms, Names, and Titles Cited
Index
Selected Bibliography
