晦軒 安珦의 朱子學 수용과 성격

Abstract

This paper analyzes intellectual characteristics of Ahn Hyang (安珦, 1243∼1306), who accepted Zhuxi studies in the intellectually transitional period of late Goryeo and promoted it as the guiding philosophy of the time. The paper seeks to shed a new light on his attempt to revive Confucius studies. The social and economic situation in last decades of Goryeo, the period from the revolt of military to the end, was that of crisis full of conflicts and chaos. At this juncture, Ahn Hyang tried to introduce Zhuxi studies to identify the problems of society and to change its way. He found no source to rekindle the intellectual spirit necessary to reform and change the society. Neither corrupted secular Buddhism nor the lethargic officials nor the decadent literati provided answers. A Confucius revival movement emerged from here to expel the influence of Buddhism and strengthen the Confucius studies by returning to the basic spirit of the classics studies from the decadence of empty words and phrases. The Zhuxi studies introduced by Ahn Hyang came to be widely studied as it went through the hands of Baek Yijeong and Lee Jehyeon. Motivated by the realistic demands of these new scholars, the Zhuxi studies came to flourish. Those who felt frustrated by the corruption and degradation of Buddhism and the decline of the Confucius studies found Zhuxi studies answering their needs and came to have it their new ideological foundation.