The four-seven debate : an annotated translation of the most famous controversy in Korean neo-Confucian thought / Michael C. Kalton ; with Oaksook C. Kim, Sung Bae Park, Youngchan Ro, Tu Wei-Ming and Samuel Yamashita.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kalton, Michael C., author.

Kim, Oaksook Chun, author.

Park, Sung-bae, author.

Ro, Youngchan, author.

Tu, Weiming, 1940- author.

Yamashita, Samuel Hideo, 1946- author.

Series:

SUNY series in Korean studies.

SUNY series in Korean studies

Language:

English

Korean

Subjects (All):

Four beginnings and seven feelings thesis.

Neo-Confucianism--Korea.

Neo-Confucianism.

Philosophers--Korea--Correspondence.

Philosophers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

4-7 debate

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [1994]

Summary:

This book is an annotated translation, with introduction and commentary, of the correspondence between Yi Hwang (T'oegye, 1500-1570) and Ki Taesung (Kobong, 1527-1572) and between Yi I (Yulgok, 1536-1584) and Song Hon (Ugye, 1535-1598), known as the Four-Seven Debate, the most famous philosophical controversy in Korean Neo-Confucian thought. The most complex issues and difficult tensions in the great Neo-Confucian synthesis are at the juncture between the metaphysics of the cosmos and the human psyche. The Four-Seven Debate is perhaps the most searching examination of this tension ever carried out.

Contents:

Introduction to the Four-Seven Debate. Background. The Four-Seven Debate. The Toegye-Kobong Debate. The Yulgok-Ugye Debate. The Importance of the Four-Seven Debate

1. Toegye's Letter to Kobong

2. Kobong's Letter to Toegye on the Four Beginnings

Seven Feelings Thesis

3. Toegye's Reply to Kobong Arguing the Distinction of the Four Beginnings and Seven Feelings in Terms of Principle and Material Force

4. Kobong's Response to Toegye's Letter Discussing the Four Beginnings and Seven Feelings. Postscript

5. Toegye's Reply to Kobong's Critique of Distinguishing the Four Beginnings and Seven Feelings in Terms of Principle and Material Force, with a Revised version of His First Letter. Revised Draft of Toegye's First Letter. Second Letter Replying to Kobong's Critique

6. Kobong's Response to the Second Letter

7. Kobong's Postscript Explanation of the Four Beginnings and Seven Feelings

8. Kobong's General Summary of the Four Beginnings and Seven Feelings.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-204) and index.

Description based on online resource.

Other Format:

Print version: Kalton, Michael C. Four-seven debate.

ISBN:

9780585060910

1-4384-0818-8

0-585-06091-6