졸수재 조성기의 소옹학

Abstract

There is a few of papers on Jolsujae`s studies of Shaowong. Although he was born in the very famous family in Seoul, he spent his life lonely under the harsh conditions because of severe diseases and accidents, namely with physical handicaps. He had no many friends, and had died early in the age of fifty-one year old. He had a dream of writing the book similar to Shaowong`s Whangkeukkyungse. But it could be accomplished. As he enjoyed his life as a scholar in retire-ment, he liked to read the Histories, the book of Poems of Shaowong`s and the book of Hwanhkeukgyungse He regard Shaoong as a his best friend, and Jeungjeom who was a disciple of Confucius as the his best teacher. He tried to seek the pieasure which Shaowong enjoyed and to seek the streams of Heaven`s principle in the Nature which Jeungjeom enjoyed early. He was a creative thinker as well as a energetic reader of tremendous books. He was a optimist and pessimist of the this world. His mind was fulfilled with anxieties to keep order about the society. He tried to keep these two attitudes in no contradictions. People thought of him as a later Shaowong, and it was right to take him as the first full-scale Shaoongist in a philosophical attitude and a taste in the age of Chosun Dynasty.