A Korean Confucian Way of Life and Thought

Yi Hwang (1501-1570)-best known by his literary name, T'oegye-is one of the most eminent thinkers in the history of East Asian philosophy and religion. His Chasŏngnok (Record of self-reflection) is a superb Korean Neo-Confucian text: an eloquent collection of twenty-two scholarly letters and four essays written to his close disciples and junior colleagues. These were carefully selected by T'oegye himself after self-reflecting (chasŏng) on his practice of personal cultivation. The Chasŏngnok continuously guided T'oegye and inspired others on the true Confucian way (including leading Neo-Confucians in Tokugawa Japan) while it criticized Buddhism and Daoism. Its philosophical merit rivals T'oegye's monumental Sŏnghak sipto (Ten diagrams on sage learning) and "Four-Seven Debate Letters"; however, as a testament of T'oegye's character, scholarship, and teaching, the Chasŏngnok is of greater interest

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