Tradition
Cheondoism
Overview
Cheondoism (spelled Chondoism in North Korea; Korean: 천도교) is a 20th-century Korean panentheistic religion, based on the 19th-century Donghak religious movement founded by Choe Je-u and codified under Son Byong-hi. Cheondoism has its origins in the peasant rebellions which arose starting in 1812 during the Joseon.
Cheondoism is monistic and incorporates elements of Korean shamanism. It places emphasis on personal cultivation and social welfare in the present world. Splinter movements include Suwunism and Bocheonism.
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Formerly the principles were outside of and successive to one another; their unity is found in the Soul. It is said of the latter that it is not produced, and is not productive; it is individual, and hence there are many souls; it is sentient, eternal, immaterial and unchangeable.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
Close in meaning to Cheondoism; the term itself is not named.
In their endeavours to acquire knowledge of the state of Religion in China, Europeans began as usual, and as the Greeks and Romans under similar circumstances had done, by first searching for points of contact with their own belief. Now as, in their own way of thinking, the conceptions of Religion and of Theism were almost identified, or at any rate had grown together so closely, that they could only be separated…
Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and On the Will in Nature
Close in meaning to Cheondoism; the term itself is not named.
Enough, the fact that after two hundred and fifty years it was a state religion shows that it was a religion answering to the circumstances of the times. In the Middle Ages it showed itself clearly. In proportion as feudalism developed it grew into a religion corresponding with it, with a hierarchy corresponding to the feudal. And when the rule of the bourgeois came in, it developed into Protestant heresy in…
Friedrich Engels, Feuerbach
Close in meaning to Cheondoism; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Cheondoism
Related ideas
- Korea
- Monism
- Marxism–Leninism
- North Korea
- Panentheism
- South Korea
- Korean Buddhism
- Tao
- Korean shamanism
- Joseon
- Korean Confucianism
- Haymarket Books
- Tian
- Tonghak
Place in the tradition
Part of Meaning of life.