‘문(文)=무(武)’에 대한 세 가지 담론

Abstract

In this thesis, I explore critical discourse on the relationship between the pen (文) and the sword (武) from the late Goryeo dynasty to the late Joseon dynasty. I organized the related data and reviewed the three flows of discourse that were emphasized according to historical conditions and inherited over and over again. First of all, since the late Goryeo dynasty, discourses on the pen and the sword have shared the principle of “equal use of the pen and the sword” (文武竝用), and the tendency to emphasize the superiority of either the pen or the sword as well as the tendency to emphasize the complementary balance between the pen and the sword appear repeatedly. In addition, in the middle and latter Joseon period, there was also “the logics of conducting state affairs” (經世論), in which the discourse of “the pen = the sword” is unified in the horizon of “Confucianism (儒學) = military science (兵學),” “politics = military” and “military = social economy.” To conclude, discourse on the relationship between the pen and the sword from the late Goryeo dynasty to the late Joseon dynasty has developed in three levels. The first is the logic that emphasizes “the pen and the sword” at the political and military level, the second is the logic that they are mutually complementary and form equilibrium at the principle level of yin-yang (陰陽) and the five elements (五行) theory, and the third is the military and socio-economic logic developed in the horizon of “the logics of conducting state affairs.”