虛白堂 成俔의 政治思想 一考

Abstract

This article is an attempt to construct Joseon Dynasty’s Political though through prose. The reason why I chose Seong, Hyeon(成俔) as the first object is the volume and depth of his politics and political thought. In order to thoroughly analyze Seong, Hyeon’s political thought, I divided them into the conception of person, the conception of rule, the conception of monarch, and the conception of government official to obtain the following results. First, the conception of person is as follows. Seong, Hyeon thought that humans were born differently, but he seems to recognize and discriminate between them. The political thought expressed by his the conception of person was to recognize this difference as a normal and give the most appropriate share to each other, and the influence of these ideological views on other fields of political thought is not small. Second, in the case of the conception of rule, Seong, Hyeon placed rule with benevolence(仁治) as the best value as any other Confucian scholars. In addition, he was interested in the fact that human beings are different, and he recognized the importance of li(禮) the order to clear the differences, and he also had the idea of ​​taking advantage of the ethical aspects of justice(公) and actively reigning in order to suppress human self-interest. Third, in the conception of monarch, the main idea of ​​Sung, hyeon was that the monarch, the heavenly agent, must wipe out virtue(德) and prosecute himself to carry out proper rule. He, who saw his era as the time to preserve, hoped that the monarch would follow the world according to the right way, not the lord’s way, and to practice with ‘a high-ranking government official-a press official’ rather than the lord’s own rule. Fourth, to the government official in charge of one aspect of Politics ruled by monarchs and officials, Seong-Hyeon demanded that the monarch be led by the ruler to the law, but not violently, and to gradually change the country while respecting the rule of law. And compressing his political thoughts and he conception of government official in one word can be said to be a moderate. Compared to a radical, a reactionary, and a extreme that encompass all of these, a moderate still has a meaning in the present, and diagnoses its own age with the time to preserve and suggests examples and standards of politics suitable for the day. The attitude of putting weight on the generosity and justice is also worth enjoying. However, even in order to get a glimpse of his political thought in the context, the political thought of the Joseon Dynasty must be studied more closely, and the results of the research must again function as a horizon for understanding prose at the time.