Hyegang's Sin-gi: Emphasis on Chucheuk

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.

keywords: chucheuk, gi monism, hwaldong unhwa, mind-and-heart, sin-gi, unhwagi, universal and particular

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Vol.45 No.2

Hyegang's Sin-gi: Emphasis on Chucheuk

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