克己復禮의 맥락 이해 (contextual understanding) －『춘추좌전』과 『논어』를 중심으로

Abstract

I attempt to fix a contextual understanding of the phrase, <Self-control and returning to 'Li'>. At first, extracting the historical background of the phrase, then, I fix the context of <Self-control and returning to 'Li'> through analysing of the dialogues between Confucius and the rulers of Roh. The first issue to be examined is about "who is the subject of self-control and what is the object to be controlled." The second issue to be examined is "what is the historical substance of 'Li' and what the returning to 'Li' does mean politically?" The third issue is what is the concrete object of 'non-rite'. According to our study, the subject of self-control is not 'man in general' and not the confucian. Chunqiu Zuozhuan's report wrote down that the subject of self-control was the king and the object to be controlled was his greedy ambition. The dialogues passed down by the analects indicated that the subject of self-control was the ruler and the object to be controlled was his excessive greed. And The concrete object of 'non-rite' was the ruler's action against Zhou's Rites.