愼村 黃泌秀(1842~1914)의 사상적 행보

Abstract

Hwang Pil Su is a scholar from the late 19th century Joseon Korea. He lived a time of great tumult and he tried to carry out his responsibility as an intellectual of the society in his own way. In his 20s, Hwang concerned mainly about the expulsion of Catholicism. He wrote Cheoksaseol (斥邪說, An Account of the Expulsion of Wickedness) to criticize Catholicism and prevent its popularization. His writing is considered to be one of the representative books with relevant themes at the time. He lived his early years as a conventional Confucian scholar, but in the later part of his life, he adopted Western ideas on the basis of Eastern thought. Since his 50s, he published various Confucian books while actively advocated the needs of compromising the old and new studies. He argued that the Western learning could be transplanted into soil of Eastern study. There were numbers of intellectuals who shared Hwang’s idea at the time. His friend in his latter years Yuk Yong Jeong, Kim Yun Sik who is assumed to be his acquaintance, and Sin Gi Seon who thought highly of Hwang are such scholars. By examining these intellects, one could elucidate the trend of the late 19th century realm of ideas. Even though the insufficient materials about Hwang prevent ones from gaining profound understandings of his life, it is still possible to say that he is a figure with an important historical significance. Future studies of various intellects from his time would widen our perspective of the intellectual history of the late 19th century.