율곡의 사회정치사상에 관한 북한의 선행연구 비판적 고찰

Abstract

In this thesis, the study on Yulgok’s social and political ideas in North Korea was critically examined, and the possibility that the North and South Korean researchers develop together the study on the social and poliltical ideas of the Confucian scholars of Joseon including Yulgok was explored. The North Korean researchers have the characteristics of organizing the history of Confucianism in Joseon not by school connections based on a region or regionalism but centered around the contents connection of ideas, and of focusing on social and political ideas, which is different from those of South Korean researchers. They discuss Yulgok’s social and political ideas in the category of political thoughts and social reform thoughts, and describe first with what critical mind of the times Yulgok established his political ideas. This academic attitude of the North Korean researchers can be evaluated positively, yet, there is the problem that they interpret Yulgok’s political ideas established in the context of Sage Learning(聖學) from a biased materialistic point of view regarding a liberal political ideology as for social class. On the other hand, the study on Yulgok’s social reform in North Korea is important not only in the field of philosophy but also in the areas of economics and pedagogy. The researchers in the areas of economics and pedagogy analyze rigorously what the researchers in the area of philosophy in North Kore haven’t dealt closely with regarding Yulgok’s economic and educational thoughts, and examine Yulgok’s ideological status in relation to Silhak school. Even though the North Korean researchers have the problem of making a politically biased interpretation from the viewpoint of materialism rather than considering the historical background, it’s still meaningful that the researchers from different academic fields study Yulgok’s social reform ideas in the context of the history of ideology. The study on Yulgok’s political and social reform ideology in North Korea has the positive aspect on the whole, but it has the limit of interpretation with focus too much on the problem of social class from the position of materialism. Accordidngly, in this thesis, the study in North Korea, which defines Yulgok’s political and social reform ideas as advanced but also evaluates that they were not free from the limitations of feudalism, was critically examined. For the researchers in South and North Korea to develop together the study on the social and political ideas of the Confucian scholars of Joseon including Yulgok, the North Korean researchers need to change their position of studying the history of Joseon’s Confucianism from too much focus on the frame of materialism to the viewpoint of pursuing only the progresisve political ideology. Therefore, in this paper, the possibility that the North and South Korean researchers can investigate Yulgok’s pedagogy together was explored particularly focusing on that the researchers in the education field in North Korea don’t focus on the political problem of this social class, but discuss the essential meanings of Yulgok’s educational thoughts from the viewpoint of study theory of Sage Learning criticizing Yulgok’s pedagogy properly.