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Revitalized Yangming School in Colonial Modernity: Is Jung Inbo’s Yangmyeonghak Yeonron Countering Takahashi’s History of Korean Thoughts?

  • Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
  • 2019, 76(3), pp.213-250
  • DOI : 10.17326/jhsnu.76.3.201908.213
  • Publisher : Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : July 9, 2019
  • Accepted : August 11, 2019
  • Published : August 31, 2019

Yi, Hye-gyung 1

1서울대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper argues that Jung Inbo’s Yangming Studies are related to imperial Japan’s ‘modern Yangming school’. Professor Inoue Tetsujiro of Tokyo Imperial University formed the narrative that Yangming Studies in Japan was opened in modern Japan within the framework of “from Zhuxi School to Yangming School”. Takahashi Toru, Professor of Keijo Imperial University, applied Inoue’s understanding of Confucianism to Korean studies, and defined Korea as “the stagnant society of Zhuxi School monotheism”. This paper argues that Jung Inbo’s award of Yangming School is a criticism of Takahashi, and at the same time follows the framework of Inoue’s “from Zhuxi School to Yangming School”. However, unlike Inoue, Jung himself was a Yangmning Confucian scholar; from him, therefore, “from Zhuxi School to Yangming School” was a restoration of true Confucianism. In addition, for him, a study that worries about the safety crisis of a near-familiar nation is to be Korean studies (朝鮮學) and Sincere Studies (實學). Although he used the study of Yangming as well as Inoue, he did not undermine the universality of Yangming School and stimulated nationalism with emphasis on “decreasing measures of the love due to relatives”.

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