Yi Hwang

1501 CE – 1570 CElived

Andong, Joseon Korea

• Korean Confucianism
• Neo-Confucianism

Korea’s foremost Neo-Confucian, whose decades-long correspondence on whether the moral emotions arise from principle or from vital force is one of the great debates in East Asian thought.

Known for

• the four-seven debate
• principle as active
• reverent seriousness

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