담헌 홍대용의 행정개혁론 연구

Abstract

This research studies the discipline and reform policies of Hong Dae Yong(1731-1783) who wrote under the pseudonym of Dam Hun. Hong Dae Yong is a pragmatic theorist during the reign of Young Jo and Jung Jo. Along with Park Ji Won, he represents Buk Hack, a study of Qing culture. He is a scholar with expertise in many areas such as Neo-Confucianism,astronomy, music, politics, and economics. His discipline had great influence on later scholars. Hong Dae Yong, established his theory based on a continuing research and a knowledge he gained from many trips to China. He analyzed the nature's birth, rise and fall in terms of empiricism. This was a break away from a rationalistic perspective of Confucianism. To him, a wisdom not only involves a moral theory but also a practical knowledge. A practice was more important than a knowledge. In terms of an administrative reform, he insisted on the division of sovereign and regional power, a media reform, and an abolition of national examination linking it with an education system. In terms of a policy making, he was a pioneer in Buk Hak insisting on a land reform linking it with a national defense, the importance of commerce as means to promote a public welfare.