퇴계 문학의 易學思想的 淵源 연구

Abstract

Toegye(退溪) named the middle room of Dosanseodang Wanlakjae(<玩樂齋>), and wrote a poem titled Wanjakjae. This piece of poetry points, as those by Yeomgye do, to the pleasure of perceiving the secret principles of Taegeuk. Finding the origin of and understanding the works of Toegye's literature will richly be benefited from the clues provided by the research to examine the relation between the essence of the pleasure of perceiving the secret principles of Taegeuk and literary creation. Yeomgye drew Taegeukdo(<太極圖>) and wrote Taegeukdoseol(<太極圖說>), its explanation, while Toegye presented his own view of it in A Commentary on Taegukdoseol(<太極圖說 解說>). Taegeukdo expressed the agreement of the cosmic principles of all things and the moral nature of men through drawing. Taegeukdoseol stressed the need of the mind training by men of virtue for realizing of ‘Jung-jeong-in-eui’(中正仁義), while A Commentary on Taegukdoseol stressed ‘Gung-li-jin-seong’(窮理盡性), which means an exhaustive study of reason and the exertion of one's character. We can understand the idea of the science of divination through Toegye's understanding of ‘Jung-jeong-in-eui’ and ‘Gung-li-jin- seong’. The pleasure Toegye expressed through the individual pieces of Dosanjabyeong(『陶山雜詠』) has an organic relation to the idea of the science of divination which perceives the secret principles of Taegeuk. That organic relation can be identified through a specific analysis of the work. The idea of the science of divination with which Toegye trained his mind for the realization of the morality of human being and the understanding of the rules of all things can contribute to the investigation of the aesthetic origin and character of the literature on landscapes, which he wrote from the pleasures at Dosans.