TY - JOUR
T1 - The way to become a female sage
T2 - Im Yunjidang's confucian feminism
AU - Kim, Sungmoon
PY - 2014/7
Y1 - 2014/7
N2 - Is there a counterpart to John Stuart Mill or Mary Wollstonecraft in the Confucian tradition? If so, who is it? This paper aims to introduce and examine the philosophical thought of a Korean female neo-Confucian thinker named Im Yunjidang (1721-1793) who ardently pursued Confucian sagehood and upheld moral equality between men and women by creatively reinterpreting Confucian classics as well as advancing a sophisticated neo-Confucian philosophy of human nature and moral self-cultivation. I try to make sense of Yunjidang's "Confucian feminism" by paying attention to the neo-Confucian philosophical context in late Choson Korea, in which Yunjidang was deeply embedded.
AB - Is there a counterpart to John Stuart Mill or Mary Wollstonecraft in the Confucian tradition? If so, who is it? This paper aims to introduce and examine the philosophical thought of a Korean female neo-Confucian thinker named Im Yunjidang (1721-1793) who ardently pursued Confucian sagehood and upheld moral equality between men and women by creatively reinterpreting Confucian classics as well as advancing a sophisticated neo-Confucian philosophy of human nature and moral self-cultivation. I try to make sense of Yunjidang's "Confucian feminism" by paying attention to the neo-Confucian philosophical context in late Choson Korea, in which Yunjidang was deeply embedded.
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U2 - 10.1353/jhi.2014.0026
DO - 10.1353/jhi.2014.0026
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84904317499
SN - 0022-5037
VL - 75
SP - 395
EP - 416
JO - Journal of the History of Ideas
JF - Journal of the History of Ideas
IS - 3
ER -
