우환의 서사에서 본 주역의 역도와 성인사관— 서사주의의 역사콘텐츠 —

Abstract

This essay is to explicate the issue how can Yijing be approached as a book of historical event. The main point is Gua-yao-ci as the understanding of historical narratives. Here is a horizon of comprehending a history of Zhou dynasty according to a narrative imagination. Narrative anecdotes of Gua-yao-ci in Yijing, as so-called changeological narrative, has the words of describing the historical events of happening in Zhou dynasty. Particularly, the historical view of sagehood implicatively reflects typical exemplifications individual events and situations in sequence over time. A narrativism of historical exemplifications implicatively results in the canon of Yidao. What is called Yidao is oriented toward extracting the value of morality from the principle of life. It is concretized into the horizon of sage-spirit. In this context, it is possible to say that, in the historical view of sagehood, the irreversible time of the past is elevated to the reversible time of the present. Consequently, the historical view of sagehood has a narrative of being more truly historical than a history of Zhou dynasty, and thus implicates such a kind of paradox as the past of describing but not simply meaning the past.