The Four-Seven Debate - An Annotated Translation of the Most Famous Controversy in Korean Neo-Confucian Thought

This book is an annotated translation, with introduction and commentary, of the correspondence between Yi Hwang (T'oygye, 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.

About the author

Sung Bae Park is Professor of Asian Philosophy and Religions and Director of the Center for Korean Studies at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. He is the author of Buddhist Faith and Sudden Enlightenment, also published by SUNY Press.Young-chan Ro is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at George Mason University.Tu Wei-ming is Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy and a member of the Committee on Religion at Harvard University. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Coordinator of the Dialogue of Civilizations Project at the East-West Center. He is the author of Confucian Thought: Selfhood as Creative Transformation; and Centrality and Commonality: An Essay on Confucian Religiousness, both published by SUNY Press; Confucian Ethics Today: The Singapore Challenge; Humanity and Self-Cultivation; and Neo-Confucian Thought in Action: Wang Yang-ming's Youth.

Product details

• Authors: Michael C Kalton, Michael C. Kalton, Kalton Michael C.
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.03.1994
• EAN: 9780791417522
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-1752-2
• No. of pages: 253
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 363 g
• Assisted by: Sung Bae Park, Tu Wei-ming, Samuel Yamashita
• Illustrations: 1 figure, Zahlen
• Series: Suny Korean Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Other world religions; PHILOSOPHY / Eastern, East Asian and Indian philosophy, Oriental & Indian philosophy