화서학파 심설논쟁의 전개과정과 철학적 문제의식

Abstract

This paper discussed what the debate among Hwaseo’s pupils have significance for. This dabte was raised among the disciples of Yi Hang-ro, especially between Kim Pyeong-muk(1819∼1891) and Yu Jung-gyo(1832∼1893). In 1886, Yu Jung-gyo suggested the supplementary explanation about Hwaseo’s theory of Sim[調補華西心說], and his condisciple put forth a logical argument against allowing his suggestion. The central subject of their debate was on the distinction between an ability of mind[神明] and a nature[性]. Basically, the primary cause of their dabate came from Yi Hang-ro's theory on 'unity of mind and principle[心與理一]'. So their debate finished by organizing Yi Hang-ro’s theory of Sim[華西心說]. However It have not established the sauce data on their debate by our research on Chosun's history of ideas. I tried to establish the sauce data with a time series analysis on their debate, and then research a significance for their debate. It was not only Neo-Confucian debate but their awareness of a social problem and political. Their consciousness of Chosun's crisis was converted into their philosophical and critical mind. They had tried a neo-Confucianism reestablishment for practical morality, and made head against Western powers. Their social behaviour of practical morality was the Expulsion Movement of wickedness[斥邪] and the Korean Independence Movement, and so on.