華西 心說에 대한 省齋의 調補와 그 의의

Abstract

The basic consciousness of Hwaseo's Neo-confucianism is that he can not leave this world to the presidency of Ki, and thus he is defining mind as Li (以理斷心). Sungjae (省齋) actively accepted this problem consciousness. However, he criticized Hwaseo's "defining mind as Li" for the reason that it is against the doctrines of the scriptures and Confucian scholars, and can cause many illnesses. In this context, Sungjae has raised the necessity of supplementary explanations on Hwaseo's theory of mind. In fact, Hwaseo's theory is based on the idea that "Li is good and Ki is bad" (理善氣惡論), and completely disregards Ki. He pursued "a world made up of Li only" by promoting Li from self-centeredness, into a self-existent being. This is very far from the general theory of Neo-confucianism. In traditional Confucianism, there is no way of thinking that "Li is good and Ki is bad", but the general theory of neo-confucianism is that emphasizes the complementary combination of Li and Ki. However, as a result of the attempt to complement the problems of Hwaseo's theory, Sungjae's theory seems to have failed to secure theoretical consistency by making a compromise between the general theory of the Neo-confucianism and Hwaseo's argument.