주자(朱子)와 양명(陽明)의 ‘지(知)와 행(行)’에 관한 2019년 “윤리와 사상” 교과서의 정확성

Abstract

The view of Chu Hsi and Yang-ming on ‘Knowledge(知) and Action(行)’ is one of their core thoughts. This is the reason that most of the authorized high school textbooks, “Ethics and Thoughts”, deal with this subject. The textbook published by Chunjae Education Inc., under the 2009 curriculum revision, which is studied by current high school seniors in 2019, provides a completely contrasting description of Knowledge and Action of Chu Hsi and Yang-ming by defining “unlike Chu Hsi saying knowledge and action always require each other, Yang-ming emphasized the unity of knowledge and action.” The textbooks published by Jihak Publishing Co., Ltd. and Kyohak Publishing Co., Ltd. don’t provide a marked contrast similar to the Chunjae Education textbook, but they give a comparative description of the parallelism of knowledge and action and the unity of knowledge and action, as the views of Chu Hsi and Yang-ming respectively. The Kyohak textbook, under the 2015 curriculum revision, currently studied by high school juniors in 2019, compares the parallelism of knowledge and action as the view of Chu Hsi and the unity of knowledge and action as the view of Yang-ming. The textbooks published by Mirae-n Co., Ltd. and Visang also give the description of the parallelism of knowledge and action only under Chu Hsi, while the unity of knowledge and action is described only under Yang-ming. This leads many students to misunderstand that Yang-min insisted ‘not the parallelism of knowledge and action but the unity of knowledge and action. However, Yang-ming highlighted ‘the parallelism of knowledge and action’ in several parts of “Chuanxilu”. ‘The parallelism of knowledge and action’ is the core opinion of Yang-ming. Relevant parts in the textbooks should be revised as soon as possible, so that students can acquire accurate knowledge through their textbooks.