김종직의 초기시에 담긴 ‘애민의식’ 재론 - ‘사의식(士意識)’의 일환으로서 -

Abstract

This study re-examines the poems written by Kim Jong-Jik (金宗直) from his school days to the beginning of his bureaucratic life, and traces the process of expanding feelings of compassion and empathy for the people into self-consciousness of scholarship. When Kim Jong-Jik was a teenager studying in Miryang (密陽) and other places, the people of Yeongnam had difficulties in settling and living due to frequent natural disasters, and had to suffer from double trouble due to the limitations of the tax system. It is meaningful that Kim Jong-Jik said that the people’s suffering began with institutional problems such as the collection and relief system and class problems such as the indifference of local public officials. To solve these problems, he asked questions about what policies local public officials closest to the people should pursue and what practical problems they are interested in, and sought answers. In addition, it is suggested that Kim Jong-Jik imagines the existence of a scholar as one who not only protects the survival instinct of the people but also promotes mental stability, but is based on a complementary relationship. In other words, Kim Jong-Jik’s public affection consciousness goes beyond an immediate level of closeness, empathy, and critical poetry to people’s lives to establish the role and meaning of his existence as an active subject of compassion. In this regard, it can be evaluated that it has laid a new foothold in the inner tradition of poem about one’s love for the people (愛民詩).