朱子 철학에서 義 개념의 사회윤리학적 함의

Abstract

This paper shed light on the meaning of righteousness(義) in Zhu Xi's social ethics. Righteousness(義) is a concept that has very various meanings and a very wide range of applications. In general, the concept of Righteousness has been addressed in relation to moral psychology or the moral autonomy of the subject in Neo- Confucianism. This paper, however, seeks to expand the contents of such researching tendencies and to reexamine the significance of righteousness in Zhu Xi's thought. To this end, this paper first considers the development of the concept of righteousness into two categories in Pre-Qin Confucianism and how these two categories were inherited and re-created by Zhu Xi. Next, it analyzes how Zhu Xi defined the concept of Righteousness in a social ethical sense, and shed light on suum cuique of confucian version in Zhu Xi's ethics. Finally, it explains that the relationship between Righteousness and Interests(利) was never antagonistic and confrontational in Zhu Xi's social ethics, and attempts to re-define a new concept of Righteousness.