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The Theory of ”Propriety-politics” of Joseon Intellectual in the Early 20th Century: Focusing on Jeon Byunghoon's “Political Philosophy”

Daeseung Lee 1

1전주대학교 한국고전학연구소

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ABSTRACT

This study explored the perspective of Joseon intellectuals on “Propriety-politics” at a time when East and West thoughts were in contact in the early 20th century, focusing on Jeon Byung-hoon's political philosophy. Jeon Byung-hoon was a Joseon intellectual who worked in Joseon and Beijing during the Japanese colonial period from the end of the Joseon Dynasty. Jeon Byung-hoon, who was active in Beijing during the Northern Warlords period in China, wrote General Edition of Mental Philosophy in 1920, which combines the ideas of the East and West, mental, psychological, moral, and political philosophy. In the “Political Philosophy” section, he deals with the political philosophy of the East and West, where propriety-politics is mentioned as the core of East Asian political philosophy, which is a political system that the West should emulate and have values to carry out in the coming future. In Jeon Byung-hoon's political philosophy, the Propriety-politics differs by two levels. One is the ‘Propriety-politics of Zhougong 周公’ based on the case of The Rituals of Zhou (Zhouli 周禮). This is a propriety-politics that can be changed according to the times, and it is a deposit that belongs to the field of Confucian tradition as it aims to change the customs through the edification of the Holy Prince. The other is ‘Propriety-politics of Republican Constitution.’This is a newly interpreted propriety-politics as a result of the preparation of political philosophy thoughts of East and West, and the value of republican, democracy, and constitution is given. The propriety-politics newly interpreted by Jeon Byung-hoon is a propriety-politics that stipulates legal procedures according to the will of the people and mutual contracts of the people, and can be evaluated as having meaning as a social order norm formed through social consensus of individuals with sovereignty.

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