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Gyoyu (交遊) and Network: Confucian Learning Communities in Transitional Gangwoo and Knowledge Production in the AI Era

  • 인문논총
  • 2025, 68(), pp.195~214
  • Publisher : Institute for Human studies, Kyungnam University
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : July 8, 2025
  • Accepted : October 4, 2025
  • Published : October 31, 2025

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ABSTRACT

This article analyzes the knowledge production methods of Confucian learning communities (講學, ganghak) formed by scholars in the Gangwoo (江右) region during Korea’s modern transitional period, and compares them with contemporary modes of knowledge production based on generative AI and digital networks. By doing so, it explores the philosophical and ethical implications of the traditional Confucian concept of gyoyu (交遊, scholarly fellowship) in today’s knowledge society. The scholarly activities of the Gangwoo Nosa school—centered on mutual discussion, textual correction, and moral self-cultivation—share certain similarities with algorithm-based remote collaboration and open-source knowledge sharing. However, they reveal a clear contrast in terms of moral relationships between individuals and practices of self-reflection. Focusing on cases of scholarly exchange among Gangwoo scholars, including the key figure Jeong Jae-gyu, this article sheds light on the ethical foundations of traditional Confucian knowledge communities and proposes a community-oriented philosophical framework for sustaining human-centered knowledge formation in the age of AI.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.