A REFORMATION OF CONFUCIANISM: ANNOTATED TRANSLATION OF THE PREFACES TO THE PENETRATION OF SPIRITUAL CONFIGURATIVE ENERGY ...
A REFORMATION OF CONFUCIANISM: ANNOTATED TRANSLATION OF THE PREFACES TO THE PENETRATION OF SPIRITUAL CONFIGURATIVE ENERGY ...

Summary/Abstract: A Reformation of Confucianism: Annotated Translation of the Prefaces to the Penetration of Spiritual Configurative Energy and to the Records of Correlative Reasoning. Ch’oe Han-ki is a Korean Confucian philosopher in the 19th century. His philosophy is the new reformation of Confucianism in the wake of western civilization. While his vocabulary is deeply rooted in Confucian philosophy of ki, he employed new cluster of philosophical terms from the vernacular Korean language of his age in order to reformulate new Confucian philosophy. The following is the English language translation of two prefaces to Ch’oe’s representative philosophical writings authored in 1836 entitled “Sin’git‘ong” (神氣通, Penetration of Spiritual Configurative Energy)” and “Ch’uch’ŭngnok” (推測錄, The Records of Correlative Reasoning).” They are noteworthy because they outlined his philosophical arguments in terse yet intensive articles. Major terms used throughout his life works, such as sin’gi (神氣, spiritual configurative energy), ch’uchŭk (推測, correlative reasoning), yuhaengchiri (流行之理, fluid pattern), begin to appear in them.

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