許筠의 사상 전환 - 『을병조천록』에 담긴 허균 만년의 생각 -

Abstract

Heo Kyun(許筠, 1569∼1618) went on a diplomatic mission to China from August 1615 to February 1616. He compiled poems written during that period, and published Eulbyeong-Jocheon-rok(乙丙朝天錄). This book is his last work and the only material that contains his thought in his latter years. Heo Kyun was deeply impressed by Li Zhi(李贄)’s Fenshu(焚書: A Book to Burn) in November 1615. Heo Kyun and Li Zhi, the heretics of Choseon and Ming dynasty, had a similarity of ideological orientation. So it seemed that Heo Kyun was inclined toward Li Zhi and the leftists of Yangming School who had developed his thoughts more radically. However, in January 1616, Heo Kyun declared the conversion of thought unexpectedly, after reading books of Yangming scholars, who were headed by Long Yuji(龍遇奇)’s Shengxue-qiguan-yishuo(聖學啓關臆說). His ideological orientation was not Buddhism and Taoism that he had inclined to for a long period, and not a radical idea of the leftist of Yangming School, but the main stream of Yangmingism or Zhuxiism. I think that he found a new way to cover up Yangmingism and Zhuxiism, or to consider Yangmingism and Zhuxiismand in the same context.