柳成龍의 經學觀과 經世思想의 特徵

Abstract

Seo Ae Yoo Sung-ryong(1542~1607) has been in the government service for thirty years. Therefore he have the power of influence over various fields of politics, sociey, culture in the middle of the Chosun Dynasty. In particular, what is his nature on study as the chief who played an important role in successfully overcoming this difficulty all through the war lasted for nearly seven years called 'Im-Jin Woe Ran'?He learned the Deahak 大學 at the age of six and the Mangja 孟子 at eight. When he is thirteen years old, he can read with comments of the Jungyong 中庸 and Deahak. He enter Gwan-Hak mountain to recite all the parts of the Mangja and climbed down at nineteen years old. In addition, he learned the Simhak(心學) and Yeahak(禮學) as a disciple of Twoe-Gae Lee Hwang. Like this, his attitude on the reality which is based in Confucianism had the thoroughly exclusive inclination about Buddhism and the doctrines of Wang Yangming. Like this, his thinking which conduct the world is trying to carry the Confucian into practice personally. This contents is scattered in his collection of works and permeated in the writing dedicated to the king, the relationship with a general of the enemies in wartime, communication contents between master(or teacher) and disciple and with intimate friend and instruction to children. Today as we lost human worth and were subordinated to the material world under the mask of the opening to western culture, we will have to model ourselves after his Confucian classics and statecraft which thoroughly trying to search and practice upright the study of the sages.