School · 1501 CE–1584 CE
Korean Confucian philosophy
Korean Confucian philosophy is Korean engagements with Confucian classics, moral cultivation, ritual, and debates over principle and vital force.
Shared questions
- How do principle, material force, emotion, and ritual shape moral self-cultivation?
Internal disagreements
- Whether moral feeling arises chiefly from universal principle, particular material endowment, or their inseparable interaction.
Key texts
- Ten Diagrams on Sage Learning · 1568 — Yi Hwang's summary of Neo-Confucian learning, presented to the king in his last years.
- The Four-Seven correspondence — The debate over the four beginnings and seven feelings survives as an exchange of letters rather than a treatise.