西崖 柳成龍의 陽明學 理解와 批判에 關한 考察

Abstract

In this paper, I examine Seoae Ryu Sungyong(1542~1607)’s critical standpoint against Learning of Yangming, a disciple of Toegye Lee Hwang(1501~1570), who lived the times Learning of Yangming has been transmitted to Chosūn dynasty. There were some preceding researches on thought of Ryu Sungyong, but most of them mainly made progress in the field of national defense. In general, we can easily expect or even judge that unique characteristics of Chosūn dynasty in terms of philosophy or intellectual history was Cheng-zhu Neo-Confucianism. In fact, it was true that Cheng-zhu Neo-Confucianism has ruled over the politics, cultures, philosophy, and arts of Chosūn dynasty, having the absolute power. At the same time, however, it was untrue that Cheng-zhu Neo-Confucianism was the only thought, which has ruled over the whole world of cultures, philosophy, and arts in Chosūn dynasty. In this paper, I also examined the existence of the Learning of Yangming in Chosūn dynasty, investigating Ryu Sungyong’s offensive attitude against Learning of Yangming. Toegye Lee Hwang was one of the greatest Neo-Confucian scholar in Chosūn dynasty. Since he assailed Learning of Yangming openly, defining it as a heresy, most scholars in Chosūn disapproved Learning of Yanming, and Ryu Sungyong was in the van of the attack on Learning of Yangming. Paradoxically speaking, my main methodology to examine the Learning of Yangming in Chosūn is to inquire into these critical arguments against Yangming closely. Specially, I analyzed Ryu Sungyong’s aggressive comments against Yangming in The Collected Works of Ryu Sungyong, concentraing specific concepts, like Wang Shouren, Learning of Yangming, Learning of Xiangshan, Chan Buddhism.