漢代 『詩經』 이해에 나타난 윤리적 정서 — ‘美刺說’을 중심으로 —

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to study the effectiveness of Confucian ethics on human emotions through the analysis of Book of Songs according to the development of Confucian classics in Han period. Confucian classics is newly appeared academic traditions for the purpose of establishment of royal authority and legitimacy of Han dynasty. In other words, Confucian classics was formed by the certain demands of dynasty's proper ruling to reach ideal confucian society. In the process, Songs were transformed into a authoritative classical Book of Songs and it matched human emotions with ethics. That is, confucian ethical feelings deliberately found in the feelings of old odes by the contemporary scholars. And the emotions of odes acquired social commonality relating to ethical value during the formative period of school of Book of Songs. Han scholars adopted a 'Theory of Praise-Criticism' which interpret old odes from the viewpoint of 'Praise' and 'Criticism'. 'Praising' odes give that delightful ethical emotions to rulers, but 'Criticizing' odes give blame for the immoral governance of the rulers. In conclusion, understanding the establishment of old Songs in the spectrum from 'Theory of Praise-Criticism' is important to recognize the Han period properly because using 'Theory of Praise-Criticism' in the interpretation of contemporary social affairs was the major scholastic attitude in Han Dynasty. Moreover, it was a much more important way to actualize the ideal confucian society in this world.