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Researching and Responding about Western Political System by Confucians of Yeongnam in the Colonial Period -Focused on Lee In-Jae(李寅梓) and Jo Geung-Seob(曺兢燮)-

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2019, (29), pp.93~118
  • DOI : 10.33639/ptc.2019..29.005
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : December 24, 2018
  • Accepted : January 30, 2019
  • Published : January 31, 2019

Jeong Seong-Hee 1

1성균관대학교

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ABSTRACT

Lee In-Jae and Jo Geung-Seob were scholars in the Yeongnam area following the school of Lee Hwang(李黃). Recognizing the Joseon Dynasty of the time as a crisis, they studied Western politics in order to overcome the crisis of Joseon Dynasty. But their goals were different. Lee In-Jae acknowledged the richness of the West, and saw that the power was based on the representative system and local autonomy, and tried to apply it to Joseon Dynasty. Jo Geung-Seob likewise acknowledged the wealth of the West, but he was more critical of it. He studied Western republicanism, and regarded its core as presidential and parliamentary systems. However he denied the system of the presidential term of office as having no authority, and he also denied the parliamentary system that controls the president in terms of efficiency. Jo Geung-Seob showed a strong objection to the ideas of the heavenly human rights and other rights which were the foundation of the republic system. He eventually criticized the republic system in the framework of the absolute kingship based on the class system. Their research was the result of concern of how to understand and establish relationships with Western as another being. Our concerns about relationships with Western as another being began at the end of the Joseon Dynasty, and have continued to this era passing through Lee In-Jae and Jo Geung-Seob. Recently, it seems to be entering a new stage as we move into a multicultural society. Their research will be an occasion of reflecting on our concerns about setting up relationships with another being.

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