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The Horak Debate

After the Four-Seven debate, the lineage of philosophical debate continued to Horak debate.

After the Four-Seven debate, the lineage of philosophical debate continued on to the Horak debate.

The “Ho” group, known as the orthodox line, and the “Rak” group, known as the reformative line, aroused from the Yulgok school. They discovered and theorized on the following key topics.

They analyzed the morality of the mind-heart “before activation” and “after activation”; They also asked whether moral emotions were attainable to everyone or only to the sages. Furthermore, they even asked if humans and animals share the same moral basis. In this video, we will cover the debate over the nature of “Human and Animal” and the debate on the “Mind-Heart before and after activation”.

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