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Im Yunjidang Sungmoon Kim (City University of Hong Kong)

Im Yunjidang By Sungmoon Kim (City University of Hong Kong)

Summary

This Element aims to critically examine the philosophical thought of Im Yunjidang (1721-93), a female Korean Neo-Confucian philosopher from the Choson dynasty (1392-1910), and to present her as a feminist thinker.

Im Yunjidang Summary

Im Yunjidang by Sungmoon Kim (City University of Hong Kong)

This Element aims to critically examine the philosophical thought of Im Yunjidang (1721-93), a female Korean Neo-Confucian philosopher from the Choson dynasty (1392-1910), and to present her as a feminist thinker. Unlike most Korean women of her time, Yunjidang had the exceptional opportunity to be introduced to a major philosophical debate among Korean Neo-Confucians, which was focused on two core questions-whether sages and commoners share the same heart-mind, and whether the natures of human beings and animals are identical. In the course of engaging in this debate, she was able to reformulate Neo-Confucian metaphysics and ethics of moral self-cultivation, culminating in her bold ideas of the moral equality between men and women and the possibility of female sagehood. By proposing a 'stage-approach' to feminism that is also sensitive to the cultural context, this Element shows that Yunjidang's philosophical thought could be best captured in terms of Confucian feminism.

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Yunjidang: The Person and Her World; 2. Im Yunjidang's Neo-Confucian Philosophy; 3. Im Yunjidang and Confucian Feminism; Conclusion.

Additional information

NPB9781009010665
9781009010665
1009010662
Im Yunjidang by Sungmoon Kim (City University of Hong Kong)
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2022-08-11
75
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