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Wed, 09/07/2011 - 09:23
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S. Korea lends support to Korean philosophy project at Hong Kong college
HONG KONG, Sept. 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will support a unique project on Korean philosophy currently taking place at a Hong Kong university as the country seeks to encourage more foreign scholars to engage in Korean studies, university officials said Wednesday.
City University of Hong Kong (CityU) said the Academy of Korean Studies under the South Korean Ministry of Education and Science Technology has awarded Prof. Philip Ivanhoe and Dr. Kim Sung-moon of CityU a US$1.3 million grant for an unprecedented study on Korean philosophy.
The funding is courtesy of an Academy of Korean Studies' program called the "Laboratory for the Globalization of Korean Studies", which is aimed at fostering scholars in Korean studies through research-oriented projects that can potentially lead to groundbreaking academic achievements.
CityU joined three other universities from Canada, Germany and Japan that successfully secured awards this year.
The five-year project, called "Korean Philosophy in Comparative Perspectives," will explore sophisticated theories about ethics, moral psychology, the self and political philosophy through the comparative study of Korean philosophy. Ivanhoe is the study's principal investigator, while Kim is the principal collaborator.
The main aim of the CityU research is to bring the study of Korean philosophy into the mainstream and expose more Western philosophers to traditional Korean thought and intellectual debate.
"The way traditional philosophy is done in Korea is presently not deeply engaged with, or presented in a way that is accessible to, Western analytic philosophers," Ivanhoe said, adding that scholars trained in both classical Korean philosophy and Western traditions had been rare in the field.
"We wish to bridge this gap with a core team of people who know the Korean tradition well and can write for a Western audience, and at the same time we want to expose Western philosophers to Korea so they can interact with Korean scholars," he said.
Ivanhoe, who worked as a Korean linguist with the United States Army in the 1980s, explained that East Asian and Confucian philosophy through Korean philosophical traditions offers powerful insights into pressing issues of our times, especially in the realm of the nature of moral psychology in terms of caring, altruism and the sense of belonging to other people and to a community.
The university said the project team will collaborate with researchers from Seoul National University and Korea University.
Intended output from the project will include five single-authored works, two anthologies and 16 articles, all on Korean and comparative philosophy, CityU said.
ygkim@yna.co.kr
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City University of Hong Kong (CityU) said the Academy of Korean Studies under the South Korean Ministry of Education and Science Technology has awarded Prof. Philip Ivanhoe and Dr. Kim Sung-moon of CityU a US$1.3 million grant for an unprecedented study on Korean philosophy.
The funding is courtesy of an Academy of Korean Studies' program called the "Laboratory for the Globalization of Korean Studies", which is aimed at fostering scholars in Korean studies through research-oriented projects that can potentially lead to groundbreaking academic achievements.
CityU joined three other universities from Canada, Germany and Japan that successfully secured awards this year.
The five-year project, called "Korean Philosophy in Comparative Perspectives," will explore sophisticated theories about ethics, moral psychology, the self and political philosophy through the comparative study of Korean philosophy. Ivanhoe is the study's principal investigator, while Kim is the principal collaborator.
The main aim of the CityU research is to bring the study of Korean philosophy into the mainstream and expose more Western philosophers to traditional Korean thought and intellectual debate.
"The way traditional philosophy is done in Korea is presently not deeply engaged with, or presented in a way that is accessible to, Western analytic philosophers," Ivanhoe said, adding that scholars trained in both classical Korean philosophy and Western traditions had been rare in the field.
"We wish to bridge this gap with a core team of people who know the Korean tradition well and can write for a Western audience, and at the same time we want to expose Western philosophers to Korea so they can interact with Korean scholars," he said.
Ivanhoe, who worked as a Korean linguist with the United States Army in the 1980s, explained that East Asian and Confucian philosophy through Korean philosophical traditions offers powerful insights into pressing issues of our times, especially in the realm of the nature of moral psychology in terms of caring, altruism and the sense of belonging to other people and to a community.
The university said the project team will collaborate with researchers from Seoul National University and Korea University.
Intended output from the project will include five single-authored works, two anthologies and 16 articles, all on Korean and comparative philosophy, CityU said.
ygkim@yna.co.kr
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