율곡 성학의 교육 재음미: 『성학집요(聖學輯要)』「수기(修己)」편을 심으로

Abstract

This paper examines the horizon of Sugi(修己) in Yulgok’s Seonghakjibyo(『聖學輯 要』) from a modern perspective for the main purpose of studying what messages Yulgok’s Sugi may have for education in the present day. Yulgok constructs his Seonghak(聖學) system with Sugi as its central axis, around which he arranges Ibji (立志), Suryeom(收斂), Kungli(窮理), Seongsyl(誠實), Kyokijil(矯氣質), Yanggi(養氣), Jeongsim(正心), Keomsin(檢身), Heodeokryang(恢德量), Bodeok(輔德), and Dondok(敦 篤). This constitutes Yulgok’s own unique Gongfu(工夫) paradigm that does not exist in the map of design for modern education. The paradigm proposes a restructuring of the domain of the Gongfu of self-cultivation of human nature in modern education. If Yulgok’s Seonghak is based on the foundation of the self-cultivation of human nature, then modern education is based on theoretic systems imported from the West, particularly the United States. Consequently, modern education suffers the misfortune of having Yulgokian Gongfu of Sugi being forgotten or omitted within its own paradigm. Therefore, in the context of twenty-first century education, Yulgokian Sugi is no longer an object for abandon, but a world for educational reexamination.