The Four-Seven Debate (Suny Series in Korean Studies): An Annotated Translation of the Most Famous Controversy in Korean Neo-Confucian Thought by Michael C. Kalton, Tu Wei-Ming, Oaksook C. Kim, Samuel Yamashita, Sung Bae Park

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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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