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

by Michael C. Kalton

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791417514
• ISBN13: 9780791417515
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.