花潭 徐敬德의 生態思想과 文學

Abstract

This thesis had studied about Hwadam(花潭)'s Ecological speculation and it’s based within his Neo-Confucianism. Hwadam, as other contemproary Chosun(朝鮮)'s nobility, tried to realize a just society by studing and practicing nature's inherent Universal Logic in human life. He studied Neo-Confucianism through meditation and he mainly earned it by himself. He understood that the root of everything is TaeHeo(太虛), whichi is Ilgi(一氣), and that 'Gi(氣)' gathers and composes everything, and then everything shatters and became TaeHeo again, therefore he argued that 'Gi' never disappears. Hwadam placed emphasis on Gyeokmul(格物), especially objective recognition of matters. Through Hwadam's idea which everything of the universe has place to belong, we can infer that he perceived everything is inter-connectied and even connected to lives of human beings. Also, we can see the aspect of Ecological speculation that every being affects each other and related to each other through Hwadam's idea that everything relies on each other, and we also can find his Ecological speculation in his argument which unplanned growth of mountains and hills would lead to devastated argricultural lands and recklessly made stone coffins and gravestones would ruin all the mountains. Hwadam's such Ecological speculation founded on his Neo-Confucianism. Hwadam suggests us to raise Ho-yeon(浩然), to study practicals, and to listend to the sound of the sky. This is to understand and practice heart of the earth and the sky, and he himself had practiced that in the nature while enjoying the beautiful scenary.