The Great Synthesis of Wang Yangming Neo-Confucianism in Korea

The Chonon (Testament) by Chong Chedu (Hagok)

Buch | Softcover

410 Seiten

2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-1471-1 (ISBN)

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The Great Synthesis of Wang Yangming Neo-Confucianism in Korea, a pioneering study of Chŏng Chedu (Hagok, 1649–1736) and Korean Yangming Neo-Confucianism, includes an annotated translation of the Chonŏn, Hagok’s most important work on self-cultivation, and a comprehensive introduction to his life, scholarship, and thought.

Translated, edited, and introduced by Edward Y. J. Chung, The Great Synthesis of Wang Yangming Neo-Confucianism in Korea: The Chonŏn (Testament) by Chŏng Chedu (Hagok), is the first study in a Western language of Chŏng Chedu (Hagok, 1649–1736) and Korean Wang Yangming Neo-Confucianism. Hagok was an eminent philosopher who established the unorthodox Yangming school (Yangmyŏnghak) in Korea. This book includes an annotated scholarly translation of the Chonŏn 存言 (Testament), Hagok’s most important and interesting work on Confucian self-cultivation. Chung also provides a comprehensive introduction to Hagok’s life, scholarship, and thought, especially his great synthesis of Wang’s philosophy of mind cultivation and moral practice in relation to the classical teaching of Confucius and Mencius and his critical analysis of Zhu Xi Neo-Confucianism and its Sŏngnihak tradition. Chung concludes that Hagok was an original scholar in the Sŏngnihak school, a great transmitter and interpreter of Yangming Neo-Confucianism in Korea, and a creative thinker whose integration of these two traditions inaugurated a distinctively Korean system of ethics and spirituality. This book sheds new light on the breadth and depth of Korean Neo-Confucianism and serves as a primary source for philosophy and East Asian studies in general and Confucian studies and Korean religion and philosophy in particular.

Edward Y. J. Chung is Asian studies director and professor of religious studies at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Citation Style

Note on the Chonŏn and Selecting Its Sections for Translation

Abbreviations

Notes to Preface, Note on Translation, Translation, and Citation Style, and Note on the Chonŏn and Selecting Its Sections for Translation

Translator’s Introduction

I. Chŏng Hagok’s Life and Scholarship

II. The Chonŏn and the Heart of Hagok’s Thought

Notes to the Introduction

Translation: The Chonŏn (Testament)

Part I: Hagok chŏnjip, vol. 1, pp. 285-297

Part II: Hagok chŏnjip, vol. 1, pp. 298-309

Part III: Hagok chŏnjip, vol. 1, pp. 310-319

Notes to the Translation

Glossary of Key Terms, Names, and Titles Cited

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	04.05.2022
Übersetzer	Edward Y. J. Chung
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 229 mm
Gewicht	508 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
ISBN-10	1-7936-1471-7 / 1793614717
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-1471-1 / 9781793614711
Zustand	Neuware