Kim Jang-saeng belongs to the philosophical record as a figure whose arguments outlasted the disputes that prompted them.
The record lists Kim Jang-saeng as Korean Neo-Confucian scholar, politician, educator, and writer of Korea's Joseon period (1548 -1631).
Kim Jang-saeng was born in 1548. His recorded nationality is Joseon.
Recovered classical texts and the printing press reopened questions that had been treated as settled for centuries.
Philosophy advances by objection: an argument matters if serious people spend years attacking it.
That the work was done from Joseon matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Kim Jang-saeng died in 1631, aged 83. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
