訥庵 朴旨瑞의 學問 志趣와 知的活動

Abstract

Starting to lose its influence after the restoration of King Injo(1623), the Nammyung School further shrank due to the deeper vigilance and mistrust for the Gangwoo area after the revolt of military subjects(1728). They had to fade into the mists of history in the end without getting a chance to restore their old glory. Nulam Park Ji-seo was active in the late 18th ~ early 19th century when the decline of the Nammyung School continued for over 150 years with no signs of recovery. Nulam(訥庵) was in conditions that made the Nammyung studies tendency natural to him for his lineage, academic and geographic origin. As a local nobleman in a politically alienated area, however, he was not able to keep himself away from the general trend of the reality to save his family. Residing in the Jinju area for generations, Nulam’s family began to show the Namin tendency starting with his great-grandfather. When Nulam was the head of the family, the family turned into Namin through even broader social intercourses. This tendency of his family was evidenced by his Chihak methods around Toigye and absence of his mention about the Nammyung studies in his literary works. It does not mean that Nulam discarded the tendency of Nammyung School in the Gangwoo area entirely and was biased for Namin. The Namin tendency was added to his tendency for the Nammyung School that he inherited for his lineage, academic and local conditions. Many of his lifelong intellectual activities were confined to the Gangwoo area, though. He took the lead in submitting a petition for Nammyung’s inclusion into the enshrinement of Confucian scholars, which was one of the intellectuals’ long wishes in the Gangwoo area, took the initiative in the reconstruction of educational facilities including Hyanggyos and Seowons for the reform of the academic climate in the depressed Jinju area, and made efforts to find and record the lives of local sages that were buried in history along with the local hardship. Given his activities in the course of his life, at least, he was a Gangwoo scholar with the tendency of Nammyung School.