유학에서 풍요와 평화의 의미

Abstract

Confucianism seeks for the truth that happiness can be obtained from everyday’s life. The most important factors that make people happy are richness and peace. Therefore, this paper is to study the impact of richness and peace on happiness from Confucianism’s point of view. 　Firstly, the way to achieve richness was discussed. It could be achieved thru thrift of individuals and cooperation between citizens and officials. The power of labor and knowledge could be driven by this way. Secondly, the result that could be brought by richness was addressed. The results are enjoyable life, thoughtful mind, humane custom, culture development and peace enhancement. Thirdly, the factors that ruin peace are addressed. Individually, the main factors are seeking pleasure and ease but the underlying factor is human’s greed which fosters thieves, robbers and swindlers. But historically, those factors which have ruined the peace are twisted political power and rulers. Fourthly, the ways to resolve these challenges and to preserve richness were analyzed. Both humans and systematic sides were addressed and ethical leader, courtesy and policies based on human and truth were found to be the ways. 　As a result, it is suggested that every human being needs to establish desirable human characters from their inner side that fight against selfish greed. Then seeks for solidarity with those people and deal with humankind crisis as a whole