명재明齋 윤증尹拯의책선지도責善之道와 붕당 인식

Abstract

It is an important thing to study how Yun Jeung was aware of the Bungdang, who took one of the axes around the Hoenisibi and affected the division between Noron and Soron. Yun Jeung was the leader of the Soron party, but in fact he emphasized the teachings of Chaegseon by which gentlemen groups could check and balance wrongdoings and lead to goodness each other before conflicts and division. Sinyuuiseo had the cause of Chaegseon to correct the wrongdoings of Song Siyeol who had been the teacher of Yun. Bak Sechae blamed Yun to deviate from the uili between teacher and student, and he responded him with the argument, “All teachers are not the same.” Also he denied ‘the distinction theory between right and wrong’ proposed by Noron. He identified the cause “not to defend himself or make conflict,” in order to refrain hollow arguments not related to the cause of the state when the country is in crisis. He also denied ‘the compound theory’ to eliminate devastating effects of Bungdang, proposed by Bak Sechae, because it was just a temporary measure without being supported by uili. He said that when individual gentlemen follow ‘public uili’ and discard private interests, the duty of the society would be recovered and partisan opinions withered away.