Issues in Reading Taekyoshingi in the Eighteenth Century: ‘Precursor of Modern Eugenics’ or ‘Traditional Moral Cultivation and the Analogy of Environment and Human Nature’

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This paper explores how the text Taekyoshingi has been interpreted in contrasting ways in the 18th century.
Analyzes two opposing interpretations of Taekyoshingi, focusing on their underlying worldviews.
Examines the historical context and scientific discourse of the era.
Discusses the implications of these interpretations for understanding East Asian texts.
Identified two conflicting readings of Taekyoshingi: as a precursor to modern eugenics and as traditional moral cultivation.
Demonstrated that these interpretations stem from fundamentally different worldviews: mechanistic causality and organic relationship theory.
Highlighted the potential risks of epistemological appropriation in interpreting pre-modern East Asian texts.

The analysis uncovers contrasting interpretations of Taekyoshingi in 18th century Korea, suggesting implications for understanding historical texts.

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young-jook Km (2026) studied this question.

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