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Alfred North Whitehead and Yi Yulgok : toward a process-Confucian spirituality in Korea / Chung Soon Lee.
- Title
- Alfred North Whitehead and Yi Yulgok : toward a process-Confucian spirituality in Korea / Chung Soon Lee.
- Author
- Lee, Chung Soon.
- Publication
- Lanham, MD : University Press of America, c2006.
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- Description
- 192 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "This book explores the Confucian-Christian dialogue in Korea through a comparative study of the cosmologies of Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), the founder of process philosophy, and Yi Yulgok (1536-1584), the great scholar of Korean Neo-Confucianism. Although their philosophical traditions are different, Yulgok and Whitehead's perspectives on the universe were very similar. This study argues that Whitehead's theory of eternal object-actual entity has affinities with Yulgok's theory of principle-material force. Their two theories, both based on reciprocal dialectical interrelationships, view the world as a cosmos characterized by the process of becoming. Accordingly, Whitehead's panentheistic interpretation of the God-world relationship correlates with Yulgok's Neo-Confucian notion of how the Great Ultimate relates to material force. These two concepts suggest a balanced structure of God and the world and offer insights into encouraging interreligious spirituality in Korea."--Publisher's website.
- Subject
- Yi, I, 1536-1584
- Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947
- Yi, I, 1536-1584
- Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947
- Christianity and other religions > Confucianism
- Confucianism > Christianity
- Christianity > Philosophy
- Philosophy, Confucian
- Neo-Confucianism
- Philosophy, Comparative
- Christianity > Korea > History
- Christianisme > Confucianisme
- Confucianisme > Christianisme
- Christianisme > Philosophie
- Philosophie confucéenne
- Néo-confucianisme
- Philosophie comparée
- Christianisme > Corée > Histoire
- Church history
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-187) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The process cosmology of Alfred North Whitehead -- The Neo-Confucian cosmology of Yi Yulgok -- A comparison of Whitehead and Yulgok on cosmology -- A process cosmological application to irreligious spirituality in the context of Korea.
- ISBN
- 0761833579 (paper : alk. paper)
- 9780761833574 (paper : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2005935101
- OCLC
- 66905117
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library