율곡의 인(仁)사상과 효(孝) 교육문화와 사계의 ‘호혜(互惠)의 효’ 정신 연구(1)

Abstract

This study aims to compare the thought of benevolence and filial piety education culture of Yulgok(栗谷) with Confucius to understand the characters of inheritance. Recently the development of science and industry have caused various social changes such as the rise of divorce rate, non-married people, suicide of sole elders, juvenile crimes by the social isolation and destruction of family. Therefore, the avoiding of parental support may be caused by the oblivion of the substances of education. There are so many accumulated reasons that caused this situation, but fundamentally it is the problem of education policy focuses on materialistic values rather than spiritual culture. Furthermore, the west-oriented family, society and school education neglect the filial piety education causes the problems in personality education without providing the value-oriented youths. Yulgok studied for his life to realize filial piety and this is why he needs to be a symbol of educational reform. The reciprocal family ethic education of Sagye(沙溪) who adopted Yulgok's thought can be a foundation of educational reform focuses on family education. This is the ways to overcome the today's problems of materialism and fierce competition that resulted the rack of common good by seeking personal benefits without a bright future. The aim of this study is to recover the values of non-materialistic and reciprocal family ethic to achieve the value of collective good of the society. In addition, these values must be developed as world values through Korean waves.