Im Yunjidang / Sungmoon Kim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim, Sungmoon, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements on women in the history of philosophy 2634-4645

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Im, Yunjidang, 1721-1793.

Im, Yunjidang.

Women philosophers--Korea--History--18th century.

Women philosophers.

Neo-Confucianism--Korea--History--18th century.

Neo-Confucianism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (73 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This Element aims to critically examine the philosophical thought of Im Yunjidang 任允摯堂 (1721-93), a female Korean Neo-Confucian philosopher from the Chosŏn 朝鮮 dynasty (1392-1910), and to present her as a feminist thinker. Unlike most Korean women of her time, Yunjidang had the exceptional opportunity to be introduced to a major philosophical debate among Korean Neo-Confucians, which was focused on two core questions-whether sages and commoners share the same heart-mind, and whether the natures of human beings and animals are identical. In the course of engaging in this debate, she was able to reformulate Neo-Confucian metaphysics and ethics of moral self-cultivation, culminating in her bold ideas of the moral equality between men and women and the possibility of female sagehood. By proposing a 'stage-approach' to feminism that is also sensitive to the cultural context, this Element shows that Yunjidang's philosophical thought could be best captured in terms of Confucian feminism.

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781009024068 (ebook)

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