퇴계의 공부와 인격

Abstract

Toegye Yi Hwang was based on Confucian thought and advocated the scholarship of soogichiin. Toegye emphasized saramdaum education as the realm of soogi and social responsibility as the realm of chiin through gongboo theory. The study at that time was essentially a question of community and social issues beyond the individual. The study posited by Toegye was also to clarify the idea of dotong. This tells us that only studies that presuppose the transaction between individual and society have their own meaning. Toegye’s educational thought can be summarized as a process of gongboo and saramdaum, and this aspect can be confirmed through the memories and transmission of the teachings of the master by the disciples. Toegye tried to show the identity of gongboo and saramdaum through the study of dohak and the practice of Jeoleui. Dohak and jeoleui are not values of a different nature, but different adjectives for the sum of Confucian studies from the same root. The teachings of Confucianism were to live a life faithful to the original intention of soogichiin and ipsinyangmyeong, and in the category and orientation, the dohak thought and the jeoleui spirit reveal their respective aspects of expression according to the given situation and case. According to Confucianism, the concept of civilization called dohak came to the fore in the era without external aggression, but in the era of national extinction, the concept of fidelity called jeoleui had to come to the fore. However, we must be wary of the misuse of Toegye by colonial education during the Japanese colonial period, which led to serious refraction of Toegyehak. We need to clearly establish the identity of Toegyehak while precisely dealing with the nature and meaning of gongboo with the philosophical exploration of the topography of gongboo in the Joseon Dynasty.