DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-G205-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
Retrieved April 27, 2024, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/yi-hwang-1501-70/v-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
Retrieved April 27, 2024, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/yi-hwang-1501-70/v-1
Article Summary
Yi Hwang, also known by his honorific name T’oegye, is one of the two most honoured thinkers of the Korean neo-Confucian tradition. His fully balanced and integral grasp of the complex philosophical neo-Confucian synthesis spun by Zhu Xi during China’s Song dynasty marks the tradition’s arrival at full maturity in Korea. His ‘Four–Seven Debate’ with Ki Taesûng established a distinctive problematic that strongly oriented Korean neo-Confucian thought towards exacting investigation of critical issues regarding the juncture of metaphysics and their all-important application in describing the inner life of the human heart-and-mind.
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Kalton, Michael C.. Yi Hwang (1501–70), 1998, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-G205-1. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/yi-hwang-1501-70/v-1.
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Kalton, Michael C.. Yi Hwang (1501–70), 1998, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-G205-1. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/yi-hwang-1501-70/v-1.
Copyright © 1998-2024 Routledge.