미수(眉叟) 허목(許穆)에 관한 도가(道家) 프레임 고찰

Abstract

Misu Heo Mok is recognized as a person who showed an academic inclination as a Confucian but not Neo-Confucian. In addition, he is considered to have Taoist tendencies. That recognition was already fixed as a frame and is functioning. The purpose of this study is to ensure that these existing assessments of the academic inclination of Heo Mok are appropriate. An assessment of a scholar's academic inclination should be based on his academic thought. The contention so far that Heo Mok has Taoist tendencies is based on speculation that his family or people around him were Taoist figures. That speculation was made without considering whether or not they had Taoist thinking. But they were only enveloped in some mysterious atmosphere or led the life of a recluse. Also, the facts that Heo Mok did not take the examination to serve as a government official, and he wrote various writings on mysterious things or people were overlapped with that assessment. Furthermore, the result of extracting and interpreting only necessary parts without considering the context in Heo Mok's vast writings was added on that. But, Heo Mok was a Confucian scholar who regarded the six Confucian Scriptures as important: The Book of Changes, The Book of Rites, The Book of Music, The Book of Poetry, The Book of Documents, and The Book of Spring and Autumn Annals.