조선후기 실학사상에 나타난 복지이념에 관한 연구

Abstract

A social welfare is a historical products formed through the course of conflicts and liquefactions of ideologies and theories of every age in historical generation process. Therefore, We considered the welfare ideology showed in Choseon latter's Silhak thinking as compared with western welfare ideology which we apply nowaday. Choseon latter society which came out the terminal syndrome faced difficult situations that could not even maintain it's system due to extremely political and economical confusion, disorder of social order and distress of public welfare. To overcome these situations, Silhak which introduced newly an academic paradigm showed in Sung Confucian mechanism. Silhak thinking, pro-people's tendency, emphasized the approach of welfare side that aimed to stabilize a public welfare. Many Silhak scholars actually embodied these as they established the welfare ideologies by the logical basis in their thinking that they insisted. In this paper diverse welfare ideologies that they showed were categorized largely the three and were established to be welfare ideologies inhered to Silhak thinking; four classes people equalism which reorganized the four classes people(aristocrats, farmers, artisans and trademen), the traditional class of society, through the reorganization of social divided labor system, people origin thought which had to prioritize peoples below the aristocrats, self-sustaining community spirit which sought an altruism through the divided labor and allotment based on inter-reliance. Also, this study suggested practical plans to influence welfare policies for the people in order to realize these welfare ideologies.