사주당 이씨의 삶과 학문

Abstract

Sajudang(師朱堂) Lee(李) is a woman intellectual who wrote Taegyosingi(胎敎新記). It was in the early part of the 20th century that she started to be mentioned. Taegyosingi was originally written in classical chinese and later translated into Hangeul by his son, Yu Hui(柳僖). In the year 1801, the book was completed and the preface was also written by his son. This treatise is to reconstruct Sajudang's life and scholarship who was at the height of "woman history of thought". As a method of research sellected I the method of comparison of the viewpoints and the styles of description appeared in The Epitaph of Lee, the Wife of Yu mokcheon(柳木川夫人李氏墓誌銘) written by Sin Jak(申綽) and The Epitaph of the Late Lee(先妣淑人李氏家狀) written by Yu Hui(柳僖). Especially, I tried to reargue the multiple character of women conflicts for overcoming of social restrictions, and at the same time the character and the limitation of man viewpoint on that conflicts. This is to lay foundwork for the discription of the comprehensive history of thought in pre-modern period. The Sajudang's life depicted by Yu Hui was the life of virtuous woman. Furthermore, in her early days, she opposed the distinction between men and women, and pursued her studies and moral conduct. After her marriage, she became a scholalistic companion of her husband, and exchanged poems with her husband. She also played a role of an adviser so that her husband could live a man of morality. She acknowleded the mind as the subject of desire, and discarded the distinction between the nature of man originally given from heaven(本然之性) and the nature of man distorted by desire(氣質之性) from a standpoint which was similar to Yangming School of Mind(陽明心學). As a consequense, she valued much of a body of man and that was the motivation she carred out research on foetuses, the origin of men's body. Taegyosingi was the result of accumulation of her researches. The reason why she logically maintained the discussion which was similar to Yangming School of Mind is a problem to be solved.