수양론을 통해 본 봉우(鳳宇) 권태훈(權泰勳)의 유학사상 연구

Abstract

Bongwoo, Kwon Taehoon is a modern Korean Confucian scholar who claimed that there would be no Taoists without a nation, no scholar without a nation, neither, and had participated in the anti-Japanese independence movement based on nationalism as a practice of loyalty of a Confucian scholar in Japanese colonial era and continued educational activities after settlement of administration. This study puts an in-depth study on Bongwoo, who had lived in the period of suffering of modern times, focusing on self-cultivation theory. This would lead to academic research as a method of establishing, which is still insufficient studying in modern and contemporary Korean Confucian scholars. His theory provides ground for the theory of honesty through the theory of the human mind and the moral mind, which follows the doctrine of the mean for knowing own place and Gubong, Song Ikpil`s self-sufficiency theory. Still, it emphasizes how crucial implementing his theory was. It also discusses self-cultivation theory regarding admitting one’s fault and greed, what people are reluctant to do in huddle situations, and constantly working hard. He emphasizes that everything in learning and life should be taken from oneself. In addition, Bongwoo’s self-cultivation embraces the theory of extended organic relation of Confucian tradition and has characteristics of the humanitarian ideal, an idea for world peace, and Confucius’ Daitong, a great peace ideology. This theory of self-cultivation has a thread of connection to the fundamental practical principle of Confucianism in terms of advocating the possibility of human change in the Confucian tradition and inheriting Confucius’ Daitong, a great peace ideology. In addition, he put great significance on the more specific and realistic practical training in line with situations in modern times rather than simply staying in traditional Confucianism. In this respect, Bongwoo’s cultivation theory holds educational value and significance as a modern and contemporary Korean Confucian thought.