退溪 文學의 學問的 志向 硏究

Abstract

Toegye Yi Hwang’s scholarship has been evaluated as Neo-Confucianism in succession to the doctrines of Chu-tzu. Chu-tzu’s scholarship was a crucial source for Toegye to create his poems, as shown in a wide range of his work. As Toegye’s scholarship gained a considerable academic influence, the Toegye school was formed as one of the main schools during Chosun Dynasty. Toegye valued to pursue the natural law and followed Chu-tzu’s scholarly methods. For Toegye, a primary goal for scholarship was to achieve reasoning, seek the human nature, and aspire to the heavenly mandate. Research on Toegye has not only been diffusing in Korea, but also been widespread all around the world including Japan, Taiwan, China, and the US. Toegye discovered the order of nature through one clump of grass on the street and a spring in the mountain, exploring his values that he attempted to follow. He also contemplated the order of nature and sought to the human nature through fishes and kites. Toegye’s Dosanjobyoung included his representative poems that he create in the pursuit of scholarship in the Dosanjobyoung. Thus, for Toegye, scholarship and literature merged together. Toegye’s literature has substantial research values by itself. By extension, studies will need to aim for modernization and globalization of Toegye Study. Finally, researchers should explore how Toegye expressed his thoughts in the process of his creation of literary work.