퇴율의 묘합적 사유

Abstract

The philosophical thought and system of Toegye Ihwang(退溪 李滉) and Yulgok Ii have generally studying in the confronted framework, but these have their own myohap thought and structure in common. This paper aims to thoroughly investigate Toe-Yul’s original thought of li-gi myohap (理氣妙合) and its structure respectively, and demonstrate the logical consistence and coherence in their philosophical scheme. For the Purpose distinguished from the chinese thought so-called Taegeuk-Ilwon(太極-一元), it firstly makes an deep analysis of the thought li-gi myohap (理氣妙合) in light of the ontological and cosmological dimension; And, after analysing their philosophical scheme to respect the continuity in the development of two dimensions, it make a full consideration for the systematical coherence of simㆍseongㆍjeongㆍyeu(心ㆍ性ㆍ情ㆍ意) constructed on the base of the philosophical thought and structure of li-gi myohap (理氣妙合). The core point is as in the following in a nutshell. Toegye and Yulgok have the marvelous thought(妙合的 思惟) that li (理)and gi(氣) cannot be originally separated into two exclusive substances (元不相離) and cannot be simply intermingled and reduced into one functional property(實不相雜). They also keep the marvelous structure(妙合的 構造), but in the case of Toegy the orignal structure, ho jae gi-jung(互在其中), is designed to unfolding his rhetoric for li such like neungbal neungsaeng(能發能生) in the ontological dimension and neunghyeonhaeng(能顯行) in the cosmological dimension. The rhetoric of two dimensions get to be theorized into libal-i-gisu ji(理發而氣隨之)and gibal-i-liseung ji(氣發而理乘之), and two theories come to be a logical rationale for Toegye’s development of sadan-chiljeong(四端七情) in doing pursuit of systematic consistency conformable to the thought of li-gi myohap (理氣妙合) in his philosophical system of ligi-simseong(理氣-心性). On the contrary Yulgok coherenctly constructs his philosophical system of simseong(心性) within the structure of li jae gi-jung(理在氣中), and only unfold the theory simbal-i-seongseung (心發而理性之) on a scafflod of gibal-i-liseung(氣發而理乘).