Abstrakt
In 1173, the great Neo-Confucian synthesizer Zhu Xi (朱熹, Hui-an, 1130- 1200) composed an article entitled "Treatise on Humanity," in which he expounded on the most important core-value in the Confucian philosophical tradition, "humanity" (ren 仁).1 Zhu Xi's monumental treatise caused an enormous response among Korean and Tokugawa Japanese Confucian scholars, thereby exercising tremendous impact upon the Confucian philos- ophy developed in Korea and Japan from the 13th century onward. Having completed our analysis of the Tokugawa Japanese Confucians' interpretation of Zhu Xi's "Treatise on Humanity,"2 in this article we will proceed discussing how Korean Confucians read and re-interpreted Zhu Xi's theory of humanity during the Joseon period (朝鮮, 1392-1910).