後滄 金澤述의 學問과 思想

Abstract

Huchang Taeksul Kim was an excellent disciple who pursued learning under the instruction of Woo Jeon, a scholar in the late Joseon Dynasty. However, his collection of works have not been interpreted thus related studies do not exist yet. In such circumstance, his scholarship and ideas were examined entirely and the following are their attributes I have found. First, Taeksul Kim was a Confucian scholar, who, in the first place, trained within himself with respect and earnestness, practiced humanity and justice and obedience to parents and tried to acquire the power to repulse the enemies. Second, he was a righteous man who practiced the righteousness, following the integrity of mums, rejected the opportunists like bats, followed the systems of aliens, and tried to live a life of eating pine needles honorably rather than having unrighteous things. Third, he valued family and practiced Hyojauiu (孝慈義友: obedience, love, righteousness and friendship) in the home. He himself was an educator who valued education as one of the methods to ensure one's self-fulfillment and future and, as a traditional Confucian scholar, he taught with new teaching methods. Fourth, he valued the unity of knowledge and behavior and believed that it was the self in the way why one could not go on from knowledge to behavior. Fifth, he was one of the finest writers among the disciples of Ganjae who was positive about the function of sentences containing morality because he created a great many sentences through wide reading. Sixth, in Neo-Confucianism, he succeeded to Woo Jeon's Sungsashimje (性師心弟: nature is the master; mind is the disciple.) and Shimbonsung (心本性: the original nature of mind) in the position of pro-yi (the basic principles) and studied throughly Bonyunjisung (本然之性: one's true nature) and Kijiljisung (氣質之性: nature of one's disposition). In particular, he was positive about the mind ruling the nature and desire and he believed that it was only possible when the mind was based on the nature and inspect and control the mind. And he also discussed the similarities and differences between Jeongjin Ki and Hangro Yi; he sticked to the standpoint between those two at which the mind was ki (the atmospheric force of nature) and, in Inmulsungdongyi (人物性同異: a debate over the similarity and difference between the human's and other living things' original nature.), the disposition between the man and other living things differed from each other. This is the very first thesis that examined the overall scholarship and ideas of Huchang. I personally wish that there will be more active and specific studies about him.