Acknowledgments / Conventions / Introduction / 1. From Structure to Action: The Concepts of ‘Substance’ (che 體) and ‘Function’ (yong 用) in Gwon Geun’s Philosophy Halla Kim / 2. Another Look at Yi Hwang’s Views about Li and Qi: A Case of Time-lag in the Transmission of Chinese Originals to Korea Yung Sik Kim / 3. The Li-Qi 理氣 Structures of the Four Beginnings and the Seven Emotions and the Aim of the Four-Seven Debates Hyoungchan Kim / 4. Yi Yulgok and His Contributions to Korean Confucianism: A Non-dualistic Approach Young-chan Ro / 5. Human Nature and Animal Nature: The Horak Debate and Its Philosophical Significance Richard Kim / 6. Jeong Yakyong’s Post Neo-Confucianism So-Yi Chung / 7. The Lord on High (Sangje 上帝) in Jeong Yakyong’s Thought Soon-woo Chung / 8. How do Sages Differ from the Rest of Us?: The Views of Zhu Xi and Jeong Yakyong Youngsun Back / 9. The Way to Become a Female Sage: Im Yunjidang’s Confucian Feminism Sungmoon Kim / 10. Burdens of Modernity: Baek Seonguk and the Formation of Modern Korean Buddhist Philosophy Jin Y. Park / Works Cited / Index
Youngsun Back is an Assistant Professor at the College of Confucian
Studies & Eastern Philosophy, Sungkyunkwan University, South
Korea.
Philip J. Ivanhoe is Professor of East Asian and Comparative
Philosophy and Religion and Director of the Center for East Asian
and Comparative Philosophy at City University of Hong Kong. His
many publications include Confucian Reflections (2013), The
Reception and Rendition of Freud in China (co-edited with Tao
Jiang, 2013), Mortality in Traditional Chinese Thought (co-edited
with Amy Olberding, 2011) and Taking Confucian Ethics Seriously
(co-edited with Kam-por Yu and Julia Tao, 2011).
Readers hungry for insights into Korea’s cultural history over the
last six centuries need look no farther than this comprehensive
survey of traditional Korean philosophy. In these pages they will
meet such giants as Toegye, Yulgok and Dasan and will discover that
Korean philosophy was both practical and theoretical, reflecting a
moral psychology shaped by ethical concerns.
*Don Baker, Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of
British Columbia*
In Traditional Korean Philosophy: Problems and Debates, Youngsun
Back and PJ Ivanhoe have marshaled a cadre of some of our most
distinguished contemporary scholars to tell their own story of
Korean philosophy by engaging with it philosophically. Abjuring
survey or historical vignettes, the authors of this anthology offer
tightly argued essays that grapple each in its own way with some of
the evolving terminologies, subversive voices, and persistent
problems of the tradition that has given this narrative its
distinctively Korean character.
*Roger T. Ames, Peking University*
![]() |
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
![]() |