尤庵 宋時烈의 心體에 대한 견해 考察

Abstract

Song Si-yeol was one of scholars who were filial to the science of Zhu Xi in Yi dynasty. He respected Zhu Xi, Lee Yi and Kim Jang-seng, and tired to establish the science of Zhu Xi in Yi dynasty. In the science of Zhu Xi, an established discussion of the not-yet-activating substance of heart-mind was made after the new doctrine of equilibrium and harmony. Zhu Xi argued that, when it did not activate yet, there was a substance of calmness and not-moving in the heart-mind and had the human nature of Heavenly Mandate. He called it the spirit of emptiness. Song Si-yeol's view of the spirit of emptiness, namely, the substance of heart-mind can be summarized into three parts: Firstly, it is not a unification of principle and vital force, but is composed of the vital force of pure clearance. Secondly, as the substance of heart-mind, it is not regarded as the brightening virtue. Thirdly, it is a living thing whose ability responds to and acceptable for the external situations. He understood the word emptiness as what or the ground that was acceptable for situations of things, and defined the word spirit as what or the ground that could respond to situations of things. And he regarded the spirit of emptiness, which was an ability of acceptability and response, as having a function of perception for situations of things. He argued the doctrine of perceiving the spirit of emptiness that the spirit of emptiness, which was the substance of having a possibility of calmness and not-moving in non-activation, revealed as the function of being acceptable and responding in activation. He lived before beginning the debate of Ho-lak. His view of the spirit of emptiness, namely, the substance of heart-mind appeared before it was divided into the doctrine of Ho and that of Lak, and so it did not make a precise analysis as the scholars of Ho and Lak did. It was different from Lee Gan's, as a representative for the doctrine of Lak, and Han Won-jin's, as a representative for the doctrine of Ho.