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A Study on Zhou Zuo-ren’s Theory of Human Nature through “Plutonism”

Yongtae Lee 1

1백석문화대학교

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ABSTRACT

The literary attitude of Zhou Zuo-ren has the trend of “centering on Chinese things and borrowing western ones.” It can be considered that his dualistic thinking of body and soul is traced back to Zhu Zi’s plutonism. On the discussion of nature of the human mind, in particular, he insists on the Dualism of Li and Qi, believing Li as nature(natural laws) and Qi as greed are conflicted, and calls its ability judging natural laws as ‘reputation(perceptivity).’ On the process of explaining Human mind can be controlled and led to truth and, in the end, the Dualism of Li and Qi, ‘heart involving nature and feeling’, his manner toward divinity, brutality, human nature, imagination, universality, greed, and abstinence which are shown through the explanation of Zhou Zuo-ren’s “unity of body and soul” is quite similar to Zhu Xi’s ‘seek help and leaning’ seeking an ideal world though the two from different time periods are dissimilar in theology and context.

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