박은식의 기독교 수용과 양지론

Abstract

Pak Eun Sik changed his Confucian to Yangming-thought in 1909 and its main issue was Yangji. On the other hand, the change was included by Christianity, too. Because that was about the time when the Protestant spreaded rapidly in 3 north districts in Korea and he often had written sentences which related at Christianity since that time. Especially there were many sentences on Yangji. He first compared Yangji to spirit, the Holy Sprit in letter to our students in 1909. He described it as reason of life, living and change related the Holy Spirit in the Biography of Wangyangmyeong published in 1910. And more he told that human is the practical main agents with Yangji who practice righteousness. This shows that he interpreted Yangji as the religious spirituality. However, at once his Yangji theories stressed just human independent identity not something about God of Christianity. This theories expanded national-mind In Dream to meet the First Empire of Geum written in 1911 when he fled to western Gando. His theories on Yangji was formed based on Yangming-thought, influenced by the Holy Spirit in Christianity. But they didn’t have the conception of God of Christianity, of a theistic view. Therefore, his theories, as the philosophical basis that human is the spiritual and identical being has the right of self determination, are a important consilience between Korea traditional philosophy and imported Christianity.