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A Study on Hagok Chong Che-du’s Understanding of Daehak(Great learning)

Sun Byeongsam 1

1성균관대학교

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ABSTRACT

When we study on the Hagok Chong Che-du’s philosophical thought, it is difficult to find out his thought’s characteristics which can be regarded as the stereotypes of Korean Yang-Ming Studies by comparing to chinese Yang-Ming Studies(or Post Yang-Ming Studies). For the comparative research of Hagok Chong Che-du’s philosophical thought, we need to understand what is the main idea of chinese Yang-Ming Studies(or Post Yang-Ming Studies) and Hagok Chong Che-du’s philosophical thought. So it isn’t the simple process but the long term project. In this paper, I want to study Hagok Chong Che-du’s Daehakhuo《大学说》 which is summarizing his idea of Daehaks(Great learning) to grab his liang-zhi-xue(良知学). Daehak(Great learning) is one of the most important bibles in Song-Ming-Li-Xue(宋明理学). Zhu xi(朱子) wants to establish moral standard by editing the new version of Daehak(Greatlearning), so called Daehakzhangju《大学章句》, which is specialized by the so called “the chapter of complement”(补亡章). Yang ming(阳明) disagrees with Zhu xi(朱子), thinking that the notion of Zhu xi(朱子) is only focusing on the enlargement of knowledge, ignoring the moral cultivating. So he wants to establish moral subjects by re-regarding OldVersionDaehak (《古本大学》. In this point, we can understand the reason why two scholars stresses on different aspect in Daehaks(Great learning)Hagok Chong Che–du accepts Yang ming(阳明)’s understanding of Daehaks(Great learning), disagreeing with Zhu xi(朱子)’s understanding of Daehaks(Great learning). And he wrote the Daehakhuo《大学说》 which is summarizing his idea of Daehaks(Great learning). In this paper, I focusing on the three branches, that is “zhi-shan(至善)”, “zhi-zhi-zai-ge-wu(致知在格物)”, “xiao-di-ci(孝底慈)”, trying to find out his thought’s characteristics. Briefly speaking, Hagok Chong Che–du is focusing on the harmony with people, rather than Yang ming(阳明) is focusing on the moral cultivating of individual. That is I think one of the stereotypes of Korean Yang-Ming Studies.

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