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place in Confucian tradition
- In Confucianism: The age of Confucianism: Chosŏn-dynasty Korea, Tokugawa Japan, and Qing China
…Taesŭng (1527–72) in the famous Four-Seven debate, which discussed the relationship between Mencius’s four basic human feelings—commiseration, shame, modesty, and right and wrong—and seven emotions, such as anger and joy, raised the level of Confucian dialogue to a new height of intellectual sophistication.
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