정이천의 정치사상에서 현실주의와 이상주의의 중첩-관중(管仲)과 박시제중(博施濟衆)에 대한 해석을 중심으로-

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to review Cheng Yi-chuan’s political philosophy as an overlapping of realism and idealism. If you look at the debate between Zhu Xi and Chen Liang in the Southern Song Dynasty, you can easily find that both of them use Cheng Yi-chuan’s idea as the basis for their argument. But it causes a contradictory situation that consequentialism and political realism of Chen Liang and motivationalism and political idealism of Zhu Xi are based on Cheng Yi-chuan’s thought. In this article, I aim to state that those two aspects are overlaid in the idea of Cheng Yi-chuan. In this regard, firstly I will examine Cheng’s interpretation of Guan Zhong’s ‘achievement of benevolence(仁功)’. Next, I will show that he has accepted political realism while adhering to an idealism through an analysis of his ‘extensively benefiting the people(博施濟衆)’ and relation between ‘Sagehood(聖)’ and ‘benevolence(仁)’. Finally, I will consider the philosophical implications of this 'coexistence'.