心山 金昌淑의 儒學的 ‘民族’槪念

Abstract

In late era of Chosun dynasty confucianism, nationalism has to be discussed after considering the unique situation. In this time of the history, most of the scholars called themselves as nationalists, however SimSan Kim-changsuk was different from others because of his nationalistic confucianism. His ideas were based on loyalty(義理) of late Chosun dynasty era's ju-ja study(朱子學)In this chaotic time, he succeed 'wijeong-chuksa'(衛正斥邪) idea, and played leading role to unite scholars of the confucianism to fight for nation's independence. However SimSan Kim-changsuk was not anidealist, but an activist. His idea was focusing on searching for the truth, but his mind was focusing on practicing his ideas. His will to practice was started in confucianism and extended to have desir of independence of the nation., so the root of indepedence activity was not started from the new thoughts from the west, but it was already existed in Korea. Before we use western ideas to explain what is Korean nationalism, we should try to find it in our own cultural background, which is confucianism. In cnfucianism, the idea of 'nation''s origin is loyalty(義理) which is from hwa-ee(華夷) community spirit, and this idea might be the closest to the Koean nationalism.