여헌 장현광 禮學思想 연구의 성찰과 전망

Abstract

This article, as a result of investigation of the new understanding frame about Yoheon Jang Hyungwang's ideas of Confucian properties, keeps some new suggestions. Irrespective of limits established by existing studies, Yoheon's ideas of Confucian properties have freely been investigated into the connection of the whole system of his Confucianism and its subordinate structure. The most considerable points of his learning should be two: the first is the authenticity of his learning is on the ground of his learning of the Change(Ijing) and the second is the ultimate purpose of his learning points the completion of human undertaking of morality. In accordance with this reasoning, it is discussed in this article that studies on his learning ought not to be limited to analysis and adjustment of his explanations of Confucian properties and manuals for the ceremony of doing up one's hat, of wedding or of ancestor-memorial. Specially important point of this discussion should be the idea of Quadrents of Confcuian properties which can be set up according to his conceptions. The contents of the quadrents should Confucian properties as the Ultimate principle, human nature that keeps inside the Ultimate principle, the embodied ones on one's body and behaviors, and the norms of the outer world. However, from his viewpoint the key role of the achievement or completion of one's undertaking of moraity should absolutely be dependent on the ability of the performer that can sum up and condense the contents of the quadrents onto the one's mind and boty. Therefore what he accents is to establish the post that can sum up and condense the contents of the quadrents onto the one's mind and boty. The posts should be established first of all in one's mind. And a King should become the post of all his people. The perfect ideal stage should the post of this world or the cosmos. He insists that the post is the pivotal point of the completion of everyone's undertaking in one's life. On the basis of this discussion, the future studies of his learning of Confucian properties should investigate the ground of the truth of his learning necessarily taking into consideration the inter-relation and inner-relationship in the whole system of his Confucianism. In addition, every partition of the quadrents should be studied and his understanding about the structure of the coordinations of the quadrents should also be explored. And the methodology for the completion of human undertaking should be investigated in reference to the quadrents and establishment of the posts.