• (The)Study of the Eastern Classic
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• no.36
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• pp.265-299
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• 2009

The Great Learning is an essential scripture of Confucianism that has had great influence on the politics, thoughts, society and culture of the East Asia which contains Korea, Japan and China. In case of Japan, the doctrine of Toegye(退溪) is flown into pre-Tokugawa era, and as the doctrine of Zhu Xi(朱熹) exercise influences over the other thoughts, the importance of the Great Learning is embossed relatively in Tokugawa era. The characteristic of Japanese confucianism of Tokugawa era is to lay weight on real world as such, and the Japanese confucianism has grown up academically centers on exhaustive reinterpretation about some Confucian classics. And Backho-Yoon Hyu(白湖 尹?), Seokye-Park Sedang(西溪 朴世堂) who lived in 17th century of Joseon dynasty attempt new interpretation about the Great Learning and they have an objection to the explanatory notes of Zhu Xi. In the same period of China, there are similar academic trends around Whang Jong Hi(黃宗羲), Ko Yeom Mu(顧炎武), Wang Fu Chi(王夫之). In other words, new views of real scholarship which reject emptiness and put much value on reality were current of thoughts that have been common to the oriental three countries in early and middle 17th century. The main object of this paper is to understand the attitude and understanding about the Confucian classics especially the Great Learning of the scholars who lived in early and middle Tokugawa era. It will be a decisive clue to understand the ninucture of thoughts system of them. Through these work, we understand how it has had influenced to thinking-ninucture and lives of the Japanese. And the other purpose of this paper is to understand characteristics of them when we compare that vking-ninucture and lives of the Japanese Confuciang-ninearly and middle Tokugawa era with in the same period of Jeseon and the later Ming(明) and early Ching(淸) dynasty.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.8
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• pp.367-375
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• 2009

The purpose of this thesis is to study concept of "the Publicity" in ancient classics in Asia. I refered to Book of Odes( 詩經), Analects(論語), Mencius(孟子), Collections of Chu Xi( 晦華集), Ri zhi lu( 日知錄). This thesis is to classify and reinterpret the concept of "the Publicity". The major types of it are as follows : first, "the Publicity" as the ascendancy of the king in Book of Odes. second, "the Publicity" as hereditary order in Analects, third, "the Publicity" as authority of the king in Mencius, fourth, "the Publicity" as political ascendancy in Collections of Chu Xi, fifth, "the Publicity" as public and private uniformity in Ri zhi lu.