Moral Success and Failure in the Ethical Theory of Tasan Chŏng Yagyong

Baek, Minjeong

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“…Setton translates giho as “innate proclivities or appetites” (Setton, 1997, p. 77), while Ivanhoe uses “desires and preferences” (Ivanhoe, 2016, p. 211). Others have translated giho as “human desires” (Baker, 2013, p. 44), “(moral) inclination” (Chung, 2013, p. 116), or “innate tendency (appetite)” (Baek, 2016, p. 245). However, these translations hardly represent the multi‐faceted meanings of giho .…”

Section: Taste: Translation Of Gihomentioning

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Understanding human nature through taste: Dasan Jeong Yak‐yong's account of human‐nature‐as‐taste

Choi

2023

The Philosophical Forum

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This essay investigates Dasan Jeong Yak‐yong's (1762–1836) account of human‐nature‐as‐taste, by comparing his commentaries on significant chapters in the Mengzi to Zhu Xi's commentaries. Dasan argues that human nature is understood through giho, taste sentiments and desires, and not as Principle (li). I first introduce Dasan's account of human‐nature‐as‐taste in his commentaries to 3A1 and 7A4. Next, I argue that giho is most appropriately translated as “taste,” because this term captures the dispositional characteristics of giho as a mental faculty as well as its mental effects, such as desires, sentiments, and preferences. I then examine Dasan's and Zhu Xi's commentaries on 6A7 and 6A6, to illustrate how Dasan's view of human‐nature‐as‐taste interprets the chapters differently from Zhu Xi's metaphysical account of human‐nature‐as‐Principle, which Dasan considers as unsupported by the philological and contextual grounds. This exploration of Dasan's empirical account of human‐nature‐as‐taste, serving as a preliminary for a philosophical study of his reinterpretation of the Confucian Classics and his performative account of moral self‐cultivation, will provide us with an alternative perspective to the Neo‐Confucian metaphysic‐epistemic account of human nature.

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Section: Taste: Translation Of Gihomentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding human nature through taste: Dasan Jeong Yak‐yong's account of human‐nature‐as‐taste

Choi

2023

The Philosophical Forum

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Creativity and Resistance in Comparative Theology

Hur

2023

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Comparative Theology

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Dasan Jeong Yagyong on Emotions and the Pursuit of Sagehood

Baker

2022

Emotions in Korean Philosophy and Religion

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Dasan Jeong Yagyong (1762–1836) spent much of his life trying to understand the role emotions play in stimulating both moral and immoral behavior. He did not limit his investigation of moral psychology to the standard list of Seven Emotions but also looked at such emotions as resentment and apprehension. He concluded that in order to ensure our emotions direct us to act appropriately, we need to cultivate an attitude of caution and apprehension. Grounded in such an attitude, our heart-mind will control and integrate the inclinations (which he believes constitute human nature) and emotions which inspire us to act selflessly.

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Moral Success and Failure in the Ethical Theory of Tasan Chŏng Yagyong

Cited by 4 publications

References 4 publications

Understanding human nature through taste: Dasan Jeong Yak‐yong's account of human‐nature‐as‐taste

Understanding human nature through taste: Dasan Jeong Yak‐yong's account of human‐nature‐as‐taste

Creativity and Resistance in Comparative Theology

Dasan Jeong Yagyong on Emotions and the Pursuit of Sagehood

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