韓儒栗谷李珥與朱子理氣論硏究

Abstract

In the 16th century ligu lier (1536-1584) is a representative figure of Confucianism in Korea and was honored as an Oriental Confucianist and great scholar in Eastern country. This great appraisal is not only for his achievements in the study of xingli and his characteristics in the field, but also for his thought influencing the Confucianism history in South Korea. According to Quan Zuwang, a scholar in Qing Dynasty, zhuzi is a great Confucianist whose knowledge is profound and subtle, and synthesized various theories over the past hundred years. The exquisite theory thought and the profound xingli system set up by Zhuzi are so good that no former Chinese philosophical theory could be compared to them. Academically, it is recognized that the Korean xingli is an inheritance of xingli in Song Dynasty and Zhuzi's philosophy as well. Ligu's xingli theory is without exception based on Chengzhu's xingli. After thinking over Ligu's liqi theory, it is not hard to find that it has difference and similarity with Zhuzi's theory, namely there are universality and particularity in their theories. The particularity is called the feature of Ligu's xingli and presents its existence value for his philosophy. This paper is aimed to find out the universality and particularity in Ligu and Zhuzi's liqi theory, i.e. to find out what Ligu had developed and inherited from Zhuzi. Ligu's world outlook of liqi two former, meaning of liqi, theory of liyifenshu, liqixianhou and other basic theory are not separate from Zhuzi's thought. As for the meaning of liqi, ligu's definition is cleaner than Zhuzi. Particularly, Ligu used qifalicheng to demonstrate the metaphysical approach to fayong and is characterized with treating liqizhimiao as his core of philosophical logic system. In Ligu's liqi theory, litongqiju based on Zhuzi's liyifenshu is an original creationby Ligu. The particularity of Ligu's liqi theory is to apply tiyong to li as well as qi, which forms his three-dimensional thought. Therefore, the position of Ligu's xingli theory should be reviewed. At present, there are more respective study on Ligu and zhuzi, but less on their universality and particularity. For this reason, this paper reviews the position of Ligu's xingli through a comparison between Ligu and Zhuzi's liqi theories.