백곡 정곤수의 가족사랑과 가문의식 연구

Abstract

As the first full-scale research on Baekgok Jeong Gon-su, this study set out to conduct an intensive investigation into his family love and consciousness. He was active as Cheongbyeongjin Jusa during Imjinwaeran, which was an extension of his family love and consciousness since he maintained Confucianism based on the traditional family-state logic. His ancestors earned fame for their Hwanryeok and study, holding government positions during Goryeo. Lee Saek referred to them as "Seowondaeseong(西原大姓)." Based on this family line, he moved between Seongju, where his original home was, and Seoul, where the home of his adopted family was, as the main descendent of Jeong Chong, one of the nation's founding contributors. His family love was found both at his adopted family and original family at the same time. His love for his older second cousin Jeong Gwal and younger second cousin Jeong Gu at his original home was especially particular. His family consciousness was manifested as he made a pedigree and "Seowonsego(西原世稿)," wrote texts about his family, and put up a tombstone. His activities reflected his pride in his family as a reputed family in Dongguk. He promoted "respect" as an ideological foundation to sustain his family, and it developed into a Confucian training theory through Kim Going-pil, his great-grandfather on the mother's side. His family love and consciousness based on the Confucian logic of Sujechipyeong(修齊治平) was actively expressed as his patriotism. As his pride as the main descendent of a founding contributor met with his devotion to the state, patriotism was a natural obligation granted to him. Here, one can understand the circulating structure, in which "Susin" expanded to "Jega" and further "Chiguk" and inversely "Chiguk" converged into "Jega" and further "Susin." This circulating structure was based on the Confucian logic of "Sugichiin(修己治人)."