『東湖問答』을 통해 본 安民의 養生論 연구

Abstract

Confucianism coexists with several ideas equal to Taoism, Buddhism, and hundred schools of thought in a process of forming Yulgok’s political philosophy. The process represents a communicational view to literature of which Yulgok aspires towards ideological convergence(思想融化), and simultaneously becomes a significant foundation able to understand Taoistic influence relating with a Gyeongse theory (governance theory) of Anmin. In this perspective, Yulgok’s “Sooneon” not only reflects his distinctive vision but also becomes a pivotal key to examine in connection with a Taoistic Yangsaeng theory a meaning of the Anmin’s Gyeongse theory for the people’s well-balanced lives prominent in “Donghomundap”. Therefore, this paper tries to go through in a view of the Taoistic Yangsaeng theory an interpretive process of social meanings that Anmin’s Gyeongse theory emphasized in the Yulgok’s early literature, “Donghomundap”. And to the extent that this attempt pertains to trying to analyze Yulgok’s political ideas in a view of ideological convergence, it will prove that the study of Anmin’s Yangsaeng theory through“Donghomundap”is parallel to Igijimyo(理氣之妙) that he aims at. Furthermore, directivity towards people’s well-balanced lives by themselves on their own based on Anmin’s Gyeongse theory emphasized in“Donghomundap”gives us an opportunity to trace an origin of the development process of the Joseon’s Confucian ideas away from a central thought of Neo-Confucianism.