ABSTRACT
Discernment can be divided into individual discernment and social discernment. Individual discernment is one person’s deliberation on one’s choice of action, while social discernment is a community’s deliberation to share a common vision toward which the members of the community should work together. Discernment is something that has to be embodied by the life of the person, and one’s influence has to be continued through the example and institutional structure that one has established. In the period before the French Revolution when social and economic inequality had caused prevalent poverty of people in general, Vincent tried to solve the problem with the Gospel vision of Jesus. Individual discernment and social discernment supplement each other, and the higher one’s social position, the greater influence one’s discernment has on others. In both processes of individual discernment and social discernment, Yulgok emphasizes the importance of dialogue in reaching a timely mean.
