Alfred North Whitehead and Yi Yulgok

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"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.

subjects: Philosophy,  Philosophie comparée,  Church history,  Neo-Confucianism,  Confucianisme,  Relations,  Christianity,  Comparative Philosophy,  Philosophie confucéenne,  Confucian Philosophy,  Christianity and other religions,  Histoire,  Interfaith relations,  Kosmologie,  Néo-confucianisme,  Christianisme,  Confucianism,  Philosophie,  Korea, religion,  History