한국고유사상과 유교(儒敎)의 습합(習合) Ⲻ 『삼국유사』와 『삼국사기』를 중심으로 Ⲻ

Abstract

Korea is a country which has its own indigenous thoughts. Ever since the beginning of its history, there have been some indigenous thoughts developed by Koreans within the terrain of Korea, which can be defined as indigenous Korean thoughts. They have been diversely affecting Korean’s daily life, as the essence of their lives. The first characteristic of indigenous Korean thoughts is their mysterious and marvelous mysticalness. This characteristic started from the Dangun mythology, the origin of Korean people, and has been deeply infused into the ancient Korean society and people around that time. Mysticalness is not an irrational element. It is a high and sublime belief derived from the Sky and a spiritual trait that cannot be explained only through rationality. The theocratic mysticality or clarity which has been handed down from the ancient times is the essence of the indigenous Korean thoughts. The second characteristic is their compatibility that allows coexistence. Since early times, Koreans have been living their lives together within the sense of unity that they are ‘the Korean race.’ That is, they have been lead a communal life with the sense of one race, while cultivating their communities. These indigenous Korean thoughts have become a foundation to accept the foreign thoughts. Particularly, they played a significant role in the process of accepting the thoughts of Confucianism and making them infused into the daily life. Ancient Koreans have accepted Confucianism, the foreign thoughts, based on the characteristics of their indigenous thoughts. During this process, there have been three major characteristics as well. Firstly, they intended to independently adopt Confucianism based according to their own faith and belief, and then to implement it in their lives. Secondly, they adapted and transformed Confucianism to be true to reality and applied them or put them into action in a practical way. Thirdly, they had a format of accepting Confucianism yet promoting coexistence and harmony with other foreign thoughts as well. Accordingly, Koreans have smoothly accepted the foreign thoughts called Confucianism which possessed universality within the frame of particularity of indigenous Korean thoughts, establishing the foundation to develop them into Korean Confucianism with unique Korean characteristics. This dissertation studies these whole process with the focus on Samguk Yusa: Heritage of the Three Kingdoms and Samguk Sagi: History of Three Kingdoms.