2018, Vol.51, No.

Philosophical Investigation 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.41

pISSN : 1598-7213 / eISSN : 2671-7565
https://journal.kci.go.kr/philinst

Park Se-dang has been regarded as an anti-Zhu xi or de-Zhu xi scholar. the sabyeonrok was treated as the supporting material for this assessment, and the Daehaksabyeonrok is the most prominent. Recently, however, several researchers presented a different view from previous assessments based on their careful analysis of Daehaksabyeonrok. Their point of view is that Park se-dang was only trying to point out and supplement the problems of Zhu xi's explanatory notes, but he was not critical of the overall theory of Zhu xi. This paper was designed to make a correct assessment of Park Se-dang by analyzing and reviewing his interpretation of the ‘Gaining knowledge by the study of things’(格物致知) on the Daehaksabyeonrok. On examination, there was no evidence that Park Se-dang would be judged as aan anti-Zhu xi or de-Zhu xi scholar, at least in his interpretation of the ‘Gaining knowledge by the study of things’ which appeared in Daehaksabyeonrok. Not only was I unable to find a case in Daehaksabyeonrok in denying the Zhu xi's philosophical theoretical system itself, but I also confirmed that he could appreciate Zhu xi's academic achievements as highly as anyone else. Park Se-dang raised a critical objection through Daehaksabyeonrok because he wanted to make it clear that Zhu xi's explanation of the ‘Gaining knowledge by the study of things’ was not appropriate as a explanatory note of the Great Learning(大學).

This paper analyzes discourse of 'Confucian Constitutionalism' in Neo-Confucianism in China. Scholars who argue Confucian Constitutionalism aim to criticize and overcome the theory of Neo-Confucian scholars in HongKong and Taiwan who tried to make modern interpretation of Confucianism in the 20th century. In addition, they are trying to reflect the ideology of Confucianism into institutions and laws based on Political Confucianism and Institutional Confucianism. The claim of Confucian Constitutionalism proposed by Jiang Qing is the radical Confucian Constitutionalism in a form of unity of politics and religion. In this regard, Joseph Chan and Yao Zhongqiu assert their own moderate Confucian Constitutionalism as criticizing and modifying Jiang’s theory. The purpose of this paper is to explain the theory of Confucian Constitutionalism and to examine meaning and limitation of it.

The purpose of this paper is to reveal that the change of the space theory, that is, the transition from place to space, constitutes one of the important theoretical backgrounds in the establishment of modern sciences. First, I argue that Galileo's space theory is based on his geometric atomism. In his geometric atomism, the key feature of space is the identity in that there is no part that can be distinguished one from another. Second, I argue that Plato and Aristotle understand space as the place, unlike modern sciences. Plato's theory of space starts from the identity of space as chora, goes to region distinction and ends with the individualization of different places of different bodies. Aristotle's place is not only individual in the sense that it is a place occupied by an individual body, but also unique in that it does not move as a unique direction where a body is carried. Third, I argue that Descartes' space theory opens the way to treat space in geometry by regarding the nature of space as an extension in the sense that it has geometric dimensions. The space theory of Galileo and Descartes laid the foundation for modern sciences by performing a transition from place to space. In modern sciences, "the desire to use time as an independent variable" is based on the space theory that turns the place into space.