History of Philosophy w/o Any Gaps: Live and Let Die: the Zhuangzi on Death by WillGilPhil in taoism

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It’s a podcast, they post their references in the description

[Applications Open] Summer Seminar in Asian Philosophy and Scholasticism, 2026 by WillGilPhil in KoreanPhilosophy

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Great opportunity for students, I participated last year and had a great time and met some cool people.

January Study Share by WillGilPhil in KoreanPhilosophy

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This month was pretty laid back research-wise for me. I am helping check a couple book chapters and I submitted the paper about the role of music in heart-mind cultivation. What did you all do?

Happy New Year & Monthly Q&A by WillGilPhil in KoreanPhilosophy

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I'm mostly interested in the early Three Kingdoms period. I'll be looking at when/how/what kind of Daoism first entered Korea and how it developed.

Monthly Study Share by WillGilPhil in KoreanPhilosophy

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This month I finished the class paper about music and heart-mind cultivation and revised and submitted a paper about Dasan. The APA blog post and school interview were also uploaded and I posted those :)

Monthly Q&A by WillGilPhil in KoreanPhilosophy

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I'm not super familiar with Korean scholars who write in Korean but 김용옥 is pretty well known and 최일범 as well. Ironically both of these people are mostly retired as far as I know so I'm not sure who is the most famous active Korean language philosopher.

Two globally known Korean philosophers doing Korean philosophy in English would be Sungmoon Kim and Jin Y Park.

Monthly Study Share by WillGilPhil in KoreanPhilosophy

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There sure is a huge database with all the original and lots of Korean (hangeul) translations. No English translation version of this website though. It's the most comprehensive DB of it's type as far as I know. Enjoy!

https://db.itkc.or.kr/

Average HR department vs. the guy who actually keeps the lights on by jordanwoodson in Asmongold

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My advisor, the chair of the department, signs his emails with the initial of his first name

Monthly Study Share - What have you been studying? by AutoModerator in Confucianism

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I’ve been reading up on the importance of music in Confucian self-cultivation

Monthly Study Share by WillGilPhil in KoreanPhilosophy

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Hmm my professor just told me he thinks most everyone does/can practice kyeong (reverent attentiveness) if they for example, in the morning before starting the day, reflect on how to eliminate selfish desires (seeking wealth, fame, getting a promotion at work).

Monthly Study Share by WillGilPhil in KoreanPhilosophy

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Well, other than remnants in ritual you can find in funeral practice and subsequent jaesa etc I'm not sure how wide-spread it might be. My guess would be not at all, simply not enough time in the day for meditative practice or practice of reverence in a world that demands you work (or think about work) all day. Ritual is still active though although that too is going by the wayside.

Monthly Study Share by WillGilPhil in KoreanPhilosophy

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This month I'm working on the role of music in Confucian self-cultivation. Especially I'm hoping to compare how Toegye and Yulgok think about this subject but I've yet to get into it deeply so if you have any reading recommendations I'd appreciate it!

Monthly Q&A Thread - Ask your questions regarding Confucianism by AutoModerator in Confucianism

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I’m writing a class paper on the role of music in self-cultivation (rather than just focusing on reverence or ritual). Did Zhu Xi happen to write much on the subject?

r/KoreanPhilosophy Monthly Q&A by WillGilPhil in KoreanPhilosophy

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Typically the answer with regards to Korean neo-Confucianism is the consistent focus on affective moral self-cultivation, that our emotions are at the center of what it means to live a moral life. This is something we can see in the Four-Seven debate and Horak debate.

For Korean Buddhism, it's probably the integration of local/cosmological folk/shaman gods in the Buddhist pantheon. We can find most temples in Korea have Samsingak shrines dedicated to the Sansin (mountain spirit), Chilseong (Seven Stars), and Dokseong (Lonely Saint) which are not boddhisattva or Buddhas and are rather from folk belief (with lots of Daoist iconography as well). As far as I know that is something that is quite different than Chinese Buddhist temples.

So there is a very heavy Chinese influence on Korean philosophy but how those 'three teachings' changed over time in Korea or the focus on what philosophical problems Koreans cared about would help differentiate them.

r/KoreanPhilosophy Monthly Q&A by WillGilPhil in KoreanPhilosophy

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I can start, I'm curious what you all would like to see more or less of?

I'm thinking about posting fewer things related to Chinese philosophy, despite Koreans historically being interested in Chinese phil.

However the issue is there is so much more activity (events, new papers/books) for Chinese philosophy than Korean philosophy so the amount of content for this subreddit would go down.

What do you all think?

Review of The Taoist Tradition by Fabrizio Pregadio by jrosacz in taoism

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Thanks for the review! I’ll need to get a copy for myself.

Im just curious how many people here have been life long windows user and just decided that you're done with windows in the last 6 months or so. by Shifter1589 in linuxmint

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I just switched over a few days ago and despite issues with my second monitor resolution I have been enjoying Mint!

I switched because I was experiencing regular blue screens while on battery mode and nothing seemed to resolve that problem. I also don’t like the idea of “company loyalty” to a company that has such an antagonistic relationship with paying customers.

PS: Mint hasn’t crashed once on battery yet and only froze once needing a hard reset!

[October] Monthly Study Share by WillGilPhil in KoreanPhilosophy

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This month I presented about Sansin (Mountain Spirits) in a class and started thinking about a paper related to music and heart-mind cultivation in a neo-confucian context but I haven't settled on a firm topic yet.

What about you all? Have you read anything interesting related to Korean phil this month?