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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 3 / 2010  
         
  Article:   „GLÜCKSELIG IST DER WEISE, WEISE IST DER GLÜCKSELIGE“: ZU EINER VERGLEICHENDEN SOTERIOLOGIE VON NEOKONFUZIANISMUS UND NEUPLATONISMUS / „BLISSFUL IS THE WISE, WISE IS THE BLISSFUL”: ON A COMPARATIVE SOTERIOLOGY OF NEO-CONFUCIANISM AND NEO-PLATONISM.

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  Abstract:  The article compares soteriological patterns of thought in the teachings of the eminent Korean Neo-Confucian scholar Yi I [Yulgok] (1536-1584) and the Jewish philosopher and poet Salomon ibn Gabirol [Avicebron] (1021/22-1058/70), thereby revealing a multitude of doctrinal similarities. After some short general remarks on the term “soteriology”, and an introductory part, the author introduces both protagonists. The following chapter tersely deals with the basic ontological notions of i 理, ki 氣, forma universalis, materia universalis, sim 心 and intelligentia from a comparative perspective. This serves as a necessary means to answer the question about what “salvation” is and how it is obtained according to the teachings of Yulgok and Gabirol. It will be shown that in spite of the different applied doctrinal parameters and the divergent cultural, temporal, local and philosophical setting, both teachings display parallel functional patterns of thought.

Keywords: Neo-Confucianism, Neo-Platonism, Yulgok, Gabirol, Soteriology. 		 
         
     
         
         
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