朱熹의 知行工夫論에 관한 小考 -토대 공부를 중심으로-

Abstract

How can the gap between knowledge and action in moral behaviors be bridged? Chu Hsi struggled to solve the problem of the inconsistency between knowledge and action by learning[工夫] and suggested learning for knowledge and leaning for action in order to do. The final goal of the learning is the unity of knowledge and action. It is a saint[聖人] that puts the unity of knowledge and action into practice. The saint that Chu Hsi regards is not the one who achieves intangible transcendence but the one who conforms with a moral standard in life. With this goal, Chu Hsi presented a confucian methodology of self-organization, described learning theory[工夫論] as a method for it. Jing kongfu[敬工夫] and Xiaoxue kongfu[小學工夫] are suggested as foundations of learning in the theory of learning and then knowledge learning and action learning are proposed.