Alfred North Whitehead and Yi Yulgok: Toward a Process-Confucian Spirituality in Korea

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.

• | Author: Chung Soon Lee
• | Publisher: University Press of America
• | Publication Date: Feb 23, 2006
• | Number of Pages: 204 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0761833579
• | ISBN-13: 9780761833574