15~16세기 善山－金泉 지역 儒學者들의 교류와 朝鮮 性理學의 전개

Abstract

As late as in the early and mid-15th century, Neo-Confucianism used to be taught at local communities or at homes by the local intellectuals, who wished to propagate their Confucian knowledge to their students and children. Kil Jae who taught students in Seonsan and Kim Suk-ja who gave private tutoring to his sons, Kim Jong-jik and Kim Maeng-seong, were the representative figures who engaged in the Neo-Confucian education for their students and sons. It was after Kim Jong-jik started to recruit students and exerted academic influences in the mid- and late 15th century that their educational activities transformed into one of an academic lineage. This was also the period, in which the intellectuals in and around Seonsan joined the Neo-Confucian school. Their activities as an academic lineage gathered more impetus, as those in the prefectures around Seonsan joined it. It was Gimcheon city area (formerly Gaeryeong, Gimsan and Jirye areas) that has contributed to the spread of the Neo-Confucianism under the influence of Seonsan. The new political ideology of the Neo-Confucianism, as Tao Learning (道學), gained more strength amid the academic exchanges and the activities to form a Neo-Confucian school among the intellectuals of the two regions. This paper examines the evolution of the Neo-Confucianism in the 15th-16th centuries in the context of the academic exchanges and the lineage of the Confucian scholars in Seonsan and its neighboring district Gimcheon.