四端七情論爭으로부터 心卽理로- 사단칠정논쟁에 대한 華西ㆍ蘆沙ㆍ寒洲의 결론

Abstract

This article explains ‘Mind is Li’ demonstrated by three persons, Lee Hangro, Gi Jeongjin, and Lee Jinsang, with relevance to the Argument of Seven-Four Theory. It is about asking and answering questions regarding this: After the Argument of Seven-Four Theory was initiated by Lee Hwang and Gi Daeseung, the process of the argument continued for 300 years among schools or even within a school, but why did it become exposed somehow as ‘Mind is Li’(心卽理), that is, the academic goal that those persons commonly pursued. This is also about exploring the relationship between the Argument of Seven-Four Theory and ‘Mind is Li’ after all and also verifying that the Argument of Seven-Four Theory started between Lee Hwang and Gi Daeseung continued in different forms for 300 years in late Chosun, and the conclusion finally appeared as ‘Mind is Li’. From the fact that Lee Hwang just did not insist it directly, but it was already close to ‘Mind is Li’ theoretically as affirming Ribal(理發) and the difference between Sadan(四端) and Chiljeong(七情) and also fixing the position of moral feelings through that, it was not a strange thing at all that Lee Jinsang’s ‘Mind is Li’ appeared afterwards by succeeding to him. In this sense, we can understand that Hanju's Learning that finally appeared as succeeding to Toegye's Learning and supporting ‘Mind is Li’ did accomplish Lee Hwang’s critical mind and pursuit more thoroughly. Meanwhile, we can also understand that Lee Hangro and Gi Jeongjin’s ‘Mind is Li’ was the two’s choice to solve the problem internalized in the theoretical system of ‘one way that ki is generated and then li follows it’ and ‘Mind is Ki’, that is, if they had succeeded to Gi Daeseung and Lee Yi’s point of view, it would have denied the moral subject after all. Their viewpoint itself already was estranged from Yulgok's Learning, but their critical mind still reached Gi Daeseung and Lee Yi; in this sense, they were the members of Giho School.