现代韩中儒学的硏究

Abstract

Being connected by land, China and Korea maintain historically long cultural exchange. Confucianism is the mainstream culture of both nations’ traditional society, and is already preserved for about two thousand years。Confucianism in Korea has been affected correspondingly along with its developing stage in China, and developed with the expression of the times. Confucianism in modern society was pushed out to the edge of the public interest due to the powerful impact from western culture and the social and political changes. Due to these factors even many scholars have been discussed for about last 20 years on the position of present-day Confucianism and the social transition problem, every panelist put out a different opinion。Such a divergence in opinion is a current trend of the times and changes constantly with social development。This paper is focused the following two subjects among those many. The first subject discussed is the essence of Confucianism thought whose core contents is reason of perfect virtue, democracy thought, and etiquette thought。The second one is the matter of social transition of Confucianism in both China and Korea. The contents in second one are the same point and the different point of Confucianism development in present-day China and Korea, matter concerning on the status change of Confucianism in nations, and interrelation between social transition and Confucianism transition in both countries.