The Four-Seven Debate (Suny Series in Korean Studies): An Annotated Translation of the Most Famous Controversy in Korean Neo-Confucian Thought

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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.
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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.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780791417515
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publication date: 4/1/1994
  • Pages: 217
  • Series: Suny Series in Korean Studies

Table of Contents

Translator's Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
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 1
2 Kobong's Letter to Toegye on the Four Beginnings - Seven Feelings Thesis 3
3 Toegye's Reply to Kobong Arguing the Distinction of the Four Beginnings and Seven Feelings in Terms of Principle and Material Force 7
4 Kobong's Response to Toegye's Letter Discussing the Four Beginnings and Seven Feelings 17
Postscript 43
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 49
Revised Draft of Toegye's First Letter 49
Second Letter Replying to Kobong's Critique 57
6 Kobong's Response to the Second Letter 81
7 Kobong's Postscript Explanation of the Four Beginnings and Seven Feelings 101
8 Kobong's General Summary of the Four Beginnings and Seven Feelings 105
9 Ugye's First Letter to Yulgok on the Four-Seven Debate 109
10 Yulgok's Response to Ugye's First Letter 113
11 Yulgok's Response to Ugye's Second (Missing) Letter 117
12 Ugye's Third Letter to Yulgok 121
13 Yulgok's Response to Ugye's Third Letter 125
14 Ugye's Fourth Letter to Yulgok 139
15 Yulgok's Reply to Ugye's Fourth Letter 145
16 Ugye's Fifth Letter to Yulgok 159
17 Yulgok's Reply to Ugye's Fifth Letter 163
18 Ugye's Sixth Letter to Yulgok 167
19 Yulgok's Reply to Ugye's Sixth Letter 173
Letter on Principle and Material Force 175
Notes 185
Glossary 201
Selected Bibliography 203
Index 205

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