곽시징 <오륜가>의 우정론- 마테오 리치 『교우론』과 비교하여

Abstract

Bungwooyushin (朋友有信) has significant implications for our lives in that friendship (友情 or 友道) embodies a sense of ethics in a horizontal relationship. As the 18th century passed, the theory of friendship was actively developed with the fixation on the party politics, the precision of Neo-Confucian concepts, and the influx of Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) Gyowooron (交友論). At the end of the 17th century, Hoenisibi (懷尼是非) brings up the question of “Who is a true friend and what is the role of a friend?” Kwak Sijing (郭始徵, 1644-1713), who was amid a political strife, searched for an answer through Oryunga (五倫歌). The essence of friendship that Kwak Si-jing thought was “complementation of humanity through Checking Goodness.” And, in that the contents of Oryunga show a considerable degree of agreement with Matteo Ricci’s Gyowooron, it can be said that the theory of friendship is at the point where it begins to be ‘discoursed.’ Both articles recognize friendship as an area of ‘​ethics’ and emphasize that friendship is a process for “becoming a good person,” which shows the core of friendship theory developed later.