노수신과 허균의 욕망론과 수양론- 양명학 수용과 관련하여 -

Abstract

This study set out to demonstrate that there were similar aspects in desire and training theories between Noh Su-shin and Heo Gyun. Noh argued that desire should be human nature and not be included in Do through cultivation based on Yegyo. Heo also argued that appetite and sexual desire should be human nature and that people should leave them to Jeong and live freely instead of following Yegyo. In his Hyojebu, Noh said that Liang-zhi found in every person was self-sufficient to encompass the logic of all things and that everything from ruling a state in the world to becoming a saint should follow thoroughly the operation of Liangzhi. In his philosophical poems written in his latter years, Heo said that anyone could be a saint by practicing Liangzhi and that the phrase saying that only saints could realize human nature in Jungyong was wrong to have people distance themselves from Do. In addition, both of them maintained that the Chein of Weiha and human nature was the essence of all types of study unlike Zhu Xi, who argued that the Chein of Weiha and human nature should be impossible. Noh said that the mind and Liang-zhi were things of Mu-oi to encompass all the logic of all creations. When following his theory of the mind, one cannot study Gyeokmul by Zhu Xi, which is to cultivate the mind with the logic outside it. The study of Weiha Chein mentioned by Noh and Heo is the method of study in the doctrines of Wang Yangming, which is to perceive the main body of the mind as the nature and natural law for oneself and return his or her blurry mind back to the original state. Both Noh and Heo said that desire was human nature, that the Chein of human nature was possible, and that anyone could be a saint by practicing Liang-zhi. These unique opinions were shared by only Noh and Heo that accepted the doctrines of Wang Yangming.