율곡의 禮學思想에 대한 문화적 의미 연구

Abstract

This paper seek out to understand Yulgok’s ideas through his books; the Study of Rites deals with not only meaning of practicability and motivation of human beings but also his will for reformation towards building up an ideal society. Such ideas with his will of reformation are reflected on Gyeokmongyogyeol. Centered on the latter book, this study aims to understand a psychological mechanism of Ye in terms of a cultural perspective. In the latter work, Gyeokmongyogyeol, Yulgok tries to routinize the rites in a cultural aspect in order to develop the new society through changing human beings’ disposition. However, it is different with the idea that emphasizes establishment of the educational and scholarly order to inherit sages’ Ye. In Gyeokmongyogyeol, motives of action for the routinized practice as well as active practicability for being true are underlined. Further, the book is in collusion with an ideology of the Communication Society to the extent that practicability of the rites is a sort of process where human beings try becoming a sage voluntarily in the everyday life culture. Therefore, understanding the meaning of Ye’s practical motivation and willful action emphasized in Gyeokmongyogyeol as a psychological mechanism influent over human behavior and consciousness is a process of considering Yulgok’s the Studies of Rites from the cultural psychology.