정약용 「극기복례위인」장의 수기치인적 독법

Abstract

In obedience to Jeong Yak-yong's an self-academic evaluation “self-cultivation and governing people”, this article analyzed the characteristics of Dasan’s political-philosophical reading by reviewing the key concepts revealed in his interpretation of a section 「Geukgi-bongnye-wiin」 of the 『The Analects of Confucius』. On the 「Won-ui-chong-gwal(原義總括)」 92nd, Dasan explained that the section 「Geukgi-bongnye-wiin」 's key content is that "the two people achieve the Benevolence(仁) but because of themselves, it's not something that two people do together." By the way, there is a problem that it is difficult to understand because it contains two contradictory contents in one sentence. In Dasan's philosophy, what is the relationship between ‘Achieving the Benevolence(仁)’, ‘the Two People’, and ‘the Oneself[己]’. Dasan revealed that the core content of this section is the ‘self-cultivation and governing people’ by developing a two-track strategy. First of all, he explained the inevitable anxiety caused by the conflicting willing of the inner mind through the concepts of In-sim and Do-sim, and presents the method to overcoming it:Weighing of subject. On the other hand explained that achieving the Benevolence(仁) is an major motivation for politician to harmonize the governed in a relationship with. In order to examine this in detail, it was divided into two parts in the content: a discussion of a overcoming oneself[克己] and a discussion of the Political Influences. Occasionally, if necessary, it was compared and contrasted with the interpretation of Neo-Confucianism to highlight the characteristics of the Dasan’s interpretation. And then through the two reviewed contents, it was found that the stepping stone concept connecting the two contents was 'Human ethics' which people always have relationships with others. Because it presupposes Human ethics, the subject's control of the mind is can led to concrete practice through the relationship with others, which in turn can leads to the creation of political efficacy. In other words, Dasan's reading of the section 「Geukgi-bongnye-wiin」 has a structure in which the context has a gradual expansion from ‘the cultivation of the subject to control the conflicting mind’ to the practice of morality and from ‘social peace and harmony between people’.