@article{ART001415368},
author={Yoo, Heun-Woo},
title={A Comparative study on 'To be a Man'(Confucianism) and 'To be a Buddhist Saint'(Buddhism)},
journal={PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE},
issn={1975-1621},
year={2008},
number={6},
pages={46-98},
doi={10.33639/ptc.2008..6.003}
TY - JOUR
AU - Yoo, Heun-Woo
TI - A Comparative study on 'To be a Man'(Confucianism) and 'To be a Buddhist Saint'(Buddhism)
JO - PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
PY - 2008
VL - null
IS - 6
PB - Research Institute for East-West Thought
SP - 46
EP - 98
SN - 1975-1621
AB - It is a very meaningful work that studies the ideal state of human being in both Neo-Confucianism and Zen of Buddhism within the comparative perspective. On one hand,
Neo-Confucianism ultimately aims at a state of being a Man(;being a moral saint) through the cultivation and the continuos learning of himself. On the other hand, Zen's thoughts in China aims at the presentative completeness of being a Buddhist saint(;being a state of Buddha himself). The idea of this presentative completeness in being couldn't be ever found in
originally existing Buddhism of India so far. This great idea could have been established by the result from the influence of Confucianism on Buddhism, when it came inside into China and
the conventional thoughts in China.
There is a big difference between a state of being a Man as the ideal image and a state of being Buddhist saint, in that Confucianism never goes beyond the correlational tie of sociality
while Buddhism carries on the religious dimension of its isolated nature in the first place. This feature would be brought up by the different opinions on the nature of human being each other.
That is to say, Zen's thoughts rest on a firm basic idea of the commonness in all things of the universe similar to Taoism, meanwhile Confucianism pays intensive attention on human being's own peculiarity. Therefore, Zen in Buddhism pursues the discussion about human nature within the possible sphere while Neo-Confucianism regards human nature as something that can
be firmly determined with value sets. According to these different viewpoints, it is absolutely natural that there are differential ways of realization and its results in human nature.
This paper aims at the introspection in Neo-Confucianism in order to figure out its possible access towards Contemporary New-Humanism;(Neo-humane studies). For this general purpose, it compares the concepts of oneness in between Heaven;‘Tian’ (天) and Human;‘Ren’(人) with the several perspectives in Zen's thoughts. In addition to this procedure, carefully negating the general existing viewpoint on that Confucius's thoughts and Mencius's had been originally taken as the idea of oneness in between ‘Tian’(天) and ‘Ren’(人), this paper begins to look closely into the key point of Confucian as the tensive correlation of the subjective free will with Tianming(天命) that indicates the objective necessity and the inevitable fate as well as fortune.
This effort in this paper makes it possible to put an emphasis on the essential feature of Contemporary New-Humanism;(Neo-humane studies) in that there are human being's free will and subjectivity.
KW - Contemporary New-Humanism;human nature;Buddha-nature;fate;subjectivity;oneness of Heaven and Human
DO - 10.33639/ptc.2008..6.003
ER -
Yoo, Heun-Woo. (2008). A Comparative study on 'To be a Man'(Confucianism) and 'To be a Buddhist Saint'(Buddhism). PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE, 6, 46-98.
Yoo, Heun-Woo. 2008, "A Comparative study on 'To be a Man'(Confucianism) and 'To be a Buddhist Saint'(Buddhism)", PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE, no.6, pp.46-98. Available from: doi:10.33639/ptc.2008..6.003
Yoo, Heun-Woo "A Comparative study on 'To be a Man'(Confucianism) and 'To be a Buddhist Saint'(Buddhism)" PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE 6 pp.46-98 (2008) : 46.
Yoo, Heun-Woo. A Comparative study on 'To be a Man'(Confucianism) and 'To be a Buddhist Saint'(Buddhism). 2008; 6 : 46-98. Available from: doi:10.33639/ptc.2008..6.003
Yoo, Heun-Woo. "A Comparative study on 'To be a Man'(Confucianism) and 'To be a Buddhist Saint'(Buddhism)" PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE no.6(2008) : 46-98.doi: 10.33639/ptc.2008..6.003
Yoo, Heun-Woo. A Comparative study on 'To be a Man'(Confucianism) and 'To be a Buddhist Saint'(Buddhism). PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE, 6, 46-98. doi: 10.33639/ptc.2008..6.003
Yoo, Heun-Woo. A Comparative study on 'To be a Man'(Confucianism) and 'To be a Buddhist Saint'(Buddhism). PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE. 2008; 6 46-98. doi: 10.33639/ptc.2008..6.003
Yoo, Heun-Woo. A Comparative study on 'To be a Man'(Confucianism) and 'To be a Buddhist Saint'(Buddhism). 2008; 6 : 46-98. Available from: doi:10.33639/ptc.2008..6.003
Yoo, Heun-Woo. "A Comparative study on 'To be a Man'(Confucianism) and 'To be a Buddhist Saint'(Buddhism)" PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE no.6(2008) : 46-98.doi: 10.33639/ptc.2008..6.003
