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A Study on Confucian Diagrams and Explain for Beginner and Other Confucian Diagrams made in Chosun Dynasty

Yoo Kwon Jong 1

1중앙대학교

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This is a study on Confucian Diagrams and Explain for Beginner which was made by Kwon Kun in the early Chosun Dynasty and proposes way of fundamental research for three aspects of developed studies on these Confucian diagrams. The first aspect is a field of meaning depicted on the diagrams, the second related to construction of image scheme and cognition, and the third iconographic features of diagrams. Being considered that except the firstthe rest have not been studied yet, this study as a fundamental research about Confucian diagrams is started in order to activate these studies. The items of fundamental research are as follow: The first is to define a possibility to divide the study of Confucian diagrams as a new and different field from the studies of Confucianism which have been tried on the base of literal materials. The others are for redefinition of the academic phase of Kwon's Confucian Diagrams and Explain for Beginneron the historical context of Confucianism for the time of Chosun Dynasty, and about the composition of the context of making Confucian diagrams. Therefore the main ideal theme of Confucian Diagrams and Explain for Beginner and principles for making diagrams are researched and cases of their accession and application by other Confucian scholars are researched, too. The main theme of Kwon's Confucian Diagrams and Explain for Beginner is oneness of Heaven and man, and other principles are 'the theoretical viewpoint based on entity and its operation' and some ones related to the learning of Confucian classics. Many Confucian diagrams made after Confucian Diagrams and Explain for Beginner till the close of Chosun Dynasty are showing the fact that Kwon's themes and principles were accessed and applied by many other Confucian scholars. And Diagrams of Heavenly Order made by some other Confucians after Kwon, also shows that many ideas and icons of Kwon's were accepted and applied. In conclusion, Confucian Diagrams and Explain for Beginner was the beginning of making Confucian diagrams and proposed many new and different icons and ideas of Korean Confucian diagrams from Chinese ones. For the first time of East Asian Confucianism it has been made with the total theme of oneness of Heaven and man. Various icons of the diagrams had becomethe fundamentals of image schema for the cognition and understanding of Confucianism. Kwon's themes and principles have given important standards to the later Confucian scholars in the making of diagrams.

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