퇴계철학의 독자성과 『심경부주』

Abstract

Where do we find out the identities of Toegye’s philosophy? This paper is a study on the question with reference to recent studies involved. There have been a trend that we should place the identity of Toegye’s philosophy in the theory of Li(理) movements. But when we examine the recent studies, we can find that some scholars preceded Toegye to such opinions and such opinions originated from zhuzi’s school living in xinan(新安) China. In these situation, I rather focused on the relation of Toegye’ philosophy and xinjingfuzhu that he had put such emphasis on it. And I have reached a conclusion that the very philosophy of mind built up on the xinjingfuzhu was the core of Toegye’s philosophy and his academic identity. He thought that the human can escape from ethical errors and do moral acts when they exercise the attributes of mind to the utmost. Therefore the purpose of philosophical training to him was to bring up the attributes of mind to the utmost and the success of Toegye’s philosophy depended on this mind training. On these grounds we can define Toegye’ philosophy as philosophy of mind.