오행사상(五行思想)의 변천에 관한 철학적 고찰

Abstract

This thesis examined the change of the Five Elements Thought(五行思想). The writings in Gwanja(『管子』) are known to have standardized the Five Elements(五行). In Gwanja(『管子』), one season is added to the four seasons. He named it Gyeha(季夏) and created five seasons. Now, with 5 lines and 5seasons, it has become a combination that suits the number. The Five Elements Thought(五行思想) was an idea that politically referred to China and the four seasons. Dong Zhong-Shu(董仲舒) made the Five Elements(五行), which had been political until now, into a relationship between nature and human beings by advocating the theory of impressions of heaven. The problem of the Five Elements(五行) has now moved from a political problem to a social and cultural one. The Five Elements Thought(五行思想) of the Song Dynasty was examined in Zhou Dunyi(周敦頤)'s “Taijitushuo”(「太極圖說)」) and Zhu Xi(朱熹)'s “Taijijieyi”(「太極解義)」), which explained it. What originally had only four poems was resolved with the part called Kiwang, and what was only side(四德) in Mencius(『孟子』) has now become the wuchang(五常). Joseon's Five Elements(五行) idea took the same position as the Song Dynasty's Five Elements(五行) idea as Joseon accepted Neo-Confucianism. The Five Elements(五行) of Silhak scholars in the late Joseon Dynasty opposed the speculative idea of creating all things and thought of them as essential materials for daily life. This idea is against anything speculative. The Five Elements(五行) is still used by us. If so, we need to come up with a plan to universalize it in some way.