주희 이고(李翶) 멸정론(滅情論) 비판의 타당성 재고

Abstract

This paper discussed whether Zhu-xi’s criticism of Tang dynasty scholar Li-Ao (772-841)’s 「The discourse of revitalizing hunman nature」 as "the theory of extinction of emotion" was reasonable through the concept analysis. Zhu-xi regarded Li-Ao's extinction of emotion argument as the extinction of the general emotion, including moral emotions, and criticized that his method originated from Taoism and Buddhism. Such criticism of Zhu-xi has ideological foundations; criticism of Buddhism cuktivation, which was popular at the time of the Southern Song Dynasty, especially of Zen-Buddhism's method of carrying out the "MingXinJianXing(明心見性)" cultivation. In order for Zhu-xi's criticism become a a valid criticism, Li-Ao really should have aimed at cultivating Buddhist status by stopping all emotional activities. However, he never demanded that all emotional activities be suspended, and he set the completion of his Confucian moral character as a disciplinary goal. However, he drew criticism by giving the concept of "emotion(情)" quite different meanings. He argued that emotions should be extinguished only as a desire to harm good nature, not as a general emotion. This is evident in the passage in which he simultaneously uses the concept of "emotion" at different levels in one sentence or discusses whether an Sage has emotions. Li-Ao's "human nature(性)" and "emotion(情)" concepts imply both horizontal confrontation(the origin of moral emotions and emotions as desire) and vertical structure(the moral nature and moral feelings), and this dual relationship is repeated in Song dynasty Neo-Confucianism. Thus his academic significance should not be evaluated by only one implication of them.