15세기 김종직의 학문기조와 사상적 특색

Abstract

This paper is to examine scholarly basis and ideological features of Kim Jong-Jik who deepened philosophical speculation focusing on Confucian scriptures and stressed its social practice in the then ideological climate that practical Confucianism was emphasized as early Neo-Confucianism was gradually accepted and spread in Joseon Dynasty. Kim Jong-Jik lived when a new religious and political culture was developed under the reign of King Seongjong which was initiated from social and political stability established by King Sejong when Joseon’s early culture prospered after a series of political upheavals. What he tried to solve in this reality mainly was Confucian ideology that corresponded to the changing era consequently to practice custom reformation and social reform. The reason why Kim Jong-Jik put emphasis on filial piety and brotherly love together with loyalty and sincerity was because it was the fundamental ideology he pursued to properly realize the spirit of self-cultivating and people-governing in Confucian scriptures both in political and social contexts. He made a lot of effort to encourage practice of Sohak and he significantly influenced his students who sought his teaching as well. It should be reevaluated in the history of ideas that Sarim School revived the collapsed fortunes and continuously expanded their influence even after they were considerably damaged and injured due to several massacres of scholars. Posterity has an ambivalent assessment on Kim Jong-Jik but as he is mentioned as a member that connected Jeong Mong-Ju to Jo Gwang-Jo in the genealogy of early Joseon’s ethics, the formation of such a scholastic theory ideologically granted scholarly justification to Sarim School that succeeded to the study of the academic which opposed to foundation of Joseon Dynasty, which significance lies in.