동아시아 양명학 전통과 서학

Abstract

Introduction of Western Learning to the Joseon Dynasty and the resultant changes in Joseon’s intellectual sphere are significant events worth studying. Yang-ming Studies could be of use to illuminate the changes brought by Western Learning, not only because it was an important intellectual trend in the late Joseon Period but also the members of Seong-ho School open to Western Learning (Catholicism) also showed their affinity for it. Two main points of previous literature on correlations between Yang-ming Studies and Western Learning are as follows: a branch of Seong-ho School, from Yi Gee-yang to Kwon Cheol-shin, embraced Western Learning through Yang-ming Studies and; the concepts such as “Liang-zhi(良知)” in the Catholic apologetic books written by Joseon scholars were came from Yang-ming Studies. By looking into how Yang-ming studies and Western Learning encountered and what changes they brought into Confucian discourses in 18th Century China and the Joseon Dynasty, this essay goes through the arguments and reexamines the correlation between Yang-ming Studies and Western Learning