Abstract
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This paper concerns Hyegang¡¯s theory of ¡°sin-gi¡± (literally, spiritual ¡°gi¡±) in his book, Sin-gitong (The Comprehension of ¡°Sin-gi¡±). ¡°Sin-gi¡± was created to support ¡°chucheuk¡± (investigating and inferring). Hyegang could not deduce the human mental/spiritual faculty from mere material ¡°gi.¡± He needed to insert the human spiritual part into it. This seems to have made Hyegang add ¡°sin¡± (spiritual) to ¡°gi.¡± As a result, Hyegang found chucheuk as the human spiritual/mental faculty and divorced it from material ¡°gi¡±; then he allotted it to ¡°sin.¡± This is the beginning of ¡°sin-gi.¡± However, Hyegang extended the concept of ¡°sin-gi¡± to the cosmological level and thereby caused a problem. The concept of ¡°sin¡± was created for supporting the human mental/spiritual faculty, but it was not enough to explain the universe. Therefore Hyegang tried to solve this problem using ¡°unhwagi¡± (circulating and changing ¡°gi¡±) in his book, Gihak.
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chucheuk, gi monism, hwaldong unhwa, mind-and-heart, sin-gi, unhwagi, universal and particular
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| About the author(s)
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Park Byung-kun (Bak, Byeong-geon) is Research Fellow at Gakushuin University, Tokyo. He received his Ph.D. in East Asian Studies from the Australian National University in 2005. Since 2001, he has been doing a research about the relation between the Korean Confucianism and Japanese thoughts (Buddhism, Shintoism, Confucianism, and Meiji thoughts). His publications include ¡°The Meaning of Heaven and Earth in Nihongi¡± (in Japanese). E-mail: kenbkpark@hotmail.com.
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