The view of human on Korean⋅Chinese⋅Japanese Confucianism in 17-18C - Focused on Wang Fu-zhi, Jeong Yak-yong, Ito Jin-sai

CHIN SUNG SU

doi:10.18213/jkccl.2010.20.1.010

The paper compared and investigated the feature of the human understanding which appears from development process of Korea, China and Japanese Confucianism in 17-18C. Tried to observe the change of Confucianism intellectual’s view of human and the meaning of history of ideas in modern thingking. To achieve this, this paper focused on the ‘Ming De(明德)’ and ‘Xing(性)’ among the Chinese Wang Fu-zhi(王夫之), Korean Jeong Yak-yong(丁若鏞), Japanese Ito Jin-sai(伊藤仁齋). In other words, this paper study on Wang Fu-zhi’s 『Da Xue(大學)』 in 「Du Si Shu Da Quan Shuo(讀四書大全說)」, Jeong Yak-yong’s 「Dae Hak Gong Yi(大學公議)」 in 『Yeo Yu Dang Jeon Seo(與猶堂全書)』, Ito Jin-sai’s 『Go Mo Ji Gi(語孟字義)』. There are three points appears from the Wang Fu-zhi, Jeong Yak-yong, Ito Jin-sai’s view of human in the meaning of modern thingking. First, the Confucianism intellectual in transition period had a critical mind about reality and tried to integrate Jing xue(經學) and Jing shi xue(經世學). Second, They showed the comprehensive scholastic trend that most of Confucianism intellectual in transition did. Third, Did not limit the object of study in only the Confucianism scripture, magnifies to li yue(禮樂), language, institution, history, literature etc., which opened the area of new Chinese classic in territory.

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