初期 士林派의 정치적 좌절과 退溪學 - 李賢輔‧李彦迪‧周世鵬을 중심으로 -

Abstract

The object of this paper is to study the relation between Toegye’s learning, early Sarim sect, and especially Yeongnam Sarim sect which had been collapsed over the Sahwa period. No one can easily deny that emergence of ‘Toegye’s learning’ was an academic event to bring qualitative change to Chosun’s Neo-confucianism. The problem of what made this academic event possible to happen is essential to understand the characteristic of Toegye’s learning. This paper shows the establishment background of Toegye theory based on the appreciation of Neo-confucianism and intention of life shown by Yi-Hyeonbo, Yi-eonjeok and Joo-Seboong, who lived when Yi-hwang was alive and also experienced the culmination of Sahwa period where the Yeongnam Sarim sect was collapsing. If you question when Neo-confucianism, which was simply considered as a study of daily life model or political ideology, started to be understood anew as the philosophy to discover the origins of cosmos and human kind, and get the attention and attempt for its social dissemination, you could see the political frustration and introspection about it that early Sarim sect had experienced during the Sahwa period became a significant turning point. And Yi-Hyeonbo, Yi-eonjeok and Joo-Seboong can be evaluated as the ones who declared their intention and prepared for the establishment of Toegye’s learning.