惠岡 崔漢綺思想의 學問的 背景에 관한 硏究

A study on the Academical Background of Choi, Hanki

본 논문은 惠岡 崔漢綺의 가계를 통해 그 사회적 지위의 상승과정을 알아보고, 학문생애를 통해 그의 학문의 대체적 편력을 살펴보았다. 그 결과 혜강은 당시의 심각한 사회적‧시상적 소용돌이 속에서 ‘氣學(기학)’이라는 그 나름의 독자적 학문체계를 열어 나갔다. 본 연구는 최한기 사상의 보다 객관적인 검토를 위해 혜강이 생존했던 시기의 네 왕조(純祖, 憲宗, 哲宗, 高宗)의 실록을 중심으로 한 시대적인 사상의 흐름에 초점을 맞춰 논의하였다.

Hyegang Choi, Hanki(惠岡) 崔漢綺 : 1803~ 1877) is considered as an important man of the history of thought in the late period Chosun. Choi, Hanki left an enormous amount of writings which reflected his idea about academical work in the late and middle of 19th century. In spite of his important achievements in our history of idea, the study on Choi, Hanki is somewhat insufficient to satisfy. This Study analysed the external conditions to form his ideas, or his life, academic activities, and periodic, social background. In the 19th century Chosun Dynasty where concerns over crisis created by various factors at home and abroad were prevalent, Choi, Hanki built up his own academical system in which named it as 'Chihak'(氣學). Academy was developed by his own concepts and system, not by collection and interpretation of books like other Neo-Confucianism. Namely, he got out of current idea of Confucianism and pursued his unique cosmological, ontological, and epistemological rationalism. He developed the academic view of Neo-Confucianism based on Chihak and contributed to the late 19th century Chosun history of idea. Hyegang was far from basing on the exclusive traditional Confusianism value system and the theory of cosmopolitanism, he built a modern view of the world. Based on the theory of western natural science and technology and overcome the traditional Confusianism, he developed a creative ideas. Regretfully, Hyegang's idea was not accepted in the 19th century Chosun. However some question raised through his advanced and open thought criticized on the old academic theory. I think it might be his strong will to do his own academic system thoroughly.