성호 이익과 소남 윤동규가 주고받은 書簡의 樣相

Abstract

The goal of this study is to explore the scholarly lineage between master and disciple through examining the letters exchanged between Yi Ik (aka Seongho) and Yun Dong-gyu (aka Sonam) in the household copy of The Posthumous Collected Manuscripts of Master Sonam (邵南先生遺集草). In the fourteen volumes of Posthumous Manuscripts, their total of 78 letters can be found in the sixth and eighth volumes. Since his mid-twenties until his death, Yi Ik continued to exchange letters with Yun Dong-gyu, and it is presumed that the two sent a similar number of letters to one another during their lives. The exchange of letters between Yi and Yun can be arranged into three points: First, the letters demonstrate their exchange of scholarly views and their application of such established views. A representative case is when Yun directly applied the proprieties established by his master for the funeral of his firstborn son, and the letters show the process of Yi clarifying Yun’s questions. Second, the letters provided an opportunity to “grow by teaching and learning together.” Yi was openminded in accepting his disciple’s opinions, and Yun was the first of Yi’s disciples to verify his master’s views. Third, the two shared and expanded their interests through their letters. An Jeong-bok’s interest in Korean history was recognized by Yi and was conveyed to Yun. Although An and Yi and An and Yun had their own personal exchanges on this topic with one another, Yun would also accept his master’s teachings and conduct historical research on his master’s ideas. 31 성호 이익과 소남 윤동규가 주고받은 書簡의 樣相 The contents of the letters between Yi and Yun begin with the Confucian classics and expand to the study of the proprieties, and included Korean history. If the letters of Yi are publicized and studied along with the letters in his collected writings, it would allow for more accurate and complex research on the process of the formation of the Yi Ik school of thought.