한국 근대 시대적 맥락에서 본 정역(正易)의 시간관

Abstract

This paper explores the meaning of Jeongyeok (正易), especially focusing on a time perspective, in the context of the modern era of Korea, which is known to have been completed by Ilbu (一夫) Kim Hang (金恒, 1826-1898) in the late 1800s. For this, this paper explores the meaning of the Jeongyeok mentioned in the discussion on the world calendar (世界曆) raised in the early and mid-1950s. Even until this period, there was a discussion on the standard calendar that can use worldwide, and in the process, the Jeongyeok was mentioned. Using this as a clue, this paper examines the confusion over the concept of time of Koreans experienced by the mixture of traditional view of time and modern view of time introduced from the West in Japanese colonial era at the end of the Joseon Dynasty. In this modern Korean period, the the Jeongyeok seems to have presented a perspective on new time based on traditional yixue (易學) thinking. In particular, the time change to the past → present → future is completed by presenting the Jeongyeok’s Eight Trigrams (正易八卦圖) after Fuxi’s Eight Trigrams (伏羲八卦圖) and Wenwang’s Eight Trigrams (文王八卦圖). However, this time change is based on a time view in which space and humans are linked, not a time view that only moves forward like the modern time view and is irrelevant to human will. In this paper, this Jeongyeok’s time perspective was examined in terms of a time view that is reversed and reflected, and a spatial and moral time view. This vision of the Jeongyeok’s future and the view of time containing human roles in realizing it served as the basis for a popular movement toward the resolution of equality in Japanese Japanese colonial era.