立志의 의미와 교육적 해석

Abstract

According to Confucianism, it is said that human being do continually pursues learning, which is an expression of human's will trying to overcome this, after realizing that although an unenlightened man himself had already taken the world as it is, he doesn't know of this truth. While traditional western people learn by the external instruction, traditional eastern ones by their own internal will. Here, they said that we call the prerequisites "立志(Lizhi)" in eastern educational tradition. The Lizhi came from Kong-zi and Meng-zi, which has vaild meaning fit in today's educational reality. I would mention "立志 (Lizhi)" suggested by 朱子(Zhu-zi) and 王陽明(Wang yang ming). The fomer synthesized 理學(Lixue), the latter 心學(Xinxue) of Neo-confucianism. Though two confucians had the different ground on "立志 (Lizhi)", they both agreed that it was common prerequisites of beginners and meant the firmness of internal will on education. 朱子(Zhu-zi) said that people should establish their own determination("立志(Lizhi)" and practice in their daily life at the same time. 王陽明(Wang yang ming) also said that "立 志 (Lizhi)" would be realized through both determination as the internal will and practice in life ,not just by people's mind. As two confucians said, "立志 (Lizhi)" means absolutely necessary cornerstone and prerequisites of the ultimate purpose of confucianism, which is to be a 聖人(Sheng-ren) by becoming only one himself from the beginning to the end of learning process.