‘천인합일(天人合一)’을 통해서 본 인식과 실천공부의 결합

Abstract

An Idea of “the unity of heaven and human(天人合一)” is ‘an ultimate confucian ideal’ which is aiming at settling down(安身立命) and at the same time is a typical feature showing a confucian idea intensively. The points of this study deal with not only the unity of heaven and human that is not only an essential point which can be achieved by man but also a significance and a value during process of getting the unity of heaven and human. In this paper, this study does not conclude that the unity of heaven and human is just the ultimate aim. This study, however, examined nature of studying Confucianism dealing with the process of making the unity in each position of heaven and human. This study uses inductive inference to understand the unity of heaven and human. At the first, this study shows the significance of heaven as reason of existence of human through the interpretation of adding the human at the side of heaven. Secondly, this study emphasizes the importance of human’s self-cultivating and learning through the interpretation of adding heaven at the side of human. Thirdly, In a relation between heaven’s will and a character, Li(理) is given to human through heaven’s will. With this Li as nature, this study examines a basis of possibility of combination to heaven at the position of human and, at the same time, examines a basis of an actual method to carry out the unity of heaven and human in the relationship between the way of heaven and the way of human. Finally, this study shows that discussion about the actual method of the unity of heaven and human is the combination of perception and practical study. at this point, through the examination of Cheng(誠) and Humanity(仁), this study examines that Cheng and Humanity is ontological principle. it, then, shows the combination of perception and practical study as a state of the unity of heaven and human.