Authors: Chung Soon Lee
ISBN-13: 9780761833574, ISBN-10: 0761833579
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University Press of America
Date Published: February 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)
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. Despite coming from different philosophical traditions, Yulgok and Whitehead had similar perspectives on the universe. This study argues that Whitehead's theory of eternal object-actual entity has affinities with Yulgok's theory of principle-material force and offer insights into encouraging interreligious spirituality in Korea.
1 | The process cosmology of Alfred North Whitehead | 13 |
2 | The neo-Confucian cosmology of Yi Yulgok | 43 |
3 | A comparison of Whitehead and Yulgok on cosmology | 79 |
4 | A process cosmological application to interreligious spirituality in the context of Korea | 91 |