주희철학에서 활연관통은 순수한 인식 의미의 오(悟)일 뿐인가?

Abstract

The ultimate goal of this study is to "establish the original knowledge and conduct theory of Confucian philosophy in which the knowledge and apprehension of the moral principles is inevitably connected to each other in their progress by eliminating the mystical elements focused on awareness in Huoranguantong of Zhu Xi’s Philosophy." The mystical tendencies about Zhu Xi's Huoranguantong have been investigated for their meanings and methodologies mostly within the category of epistemology. Eliminating mystical elements focused on awareness and establishing the knowledge and conduct theory in which awareness is necessarily accompanied by practice are thus two effects of the same goal. Knowledge accumulated through Gewuzhizhi (格物致知) one after another is acquired from practical moral experiences. The knowledge acquired from moral experiences represents the awareness of moral norms and principles, and the awareness is necessarily specified in the purity of moral motives. Since the purity of moral motives is the true feeling of real moral emotions, which is the fundamental competence of moral practice, the progress from the perfecting of knowledge to a sincere intention and then to the great effort is a natural vogue of moral psychology. If relations between "knowledge" and "conduct" are set in this form, Huoranguantons in Zhu Xi's moral theory can be understood as the stimulus of moral knowledge and, at the same time, the sincerity of moral motives.