李退渓哲學의 猪自性과 世界性

The Originality and the Universality of Lee T` oegye` s Philosophy

If we pursue the philosophy of Lee T`oegye considering its `process of forming` and its `grades of academic importance` together, we can find that it is divided in order (1) the Theory of Spiritual Cultivation(Returning to the True Mind and Keeping it in Every Doings of Daily Life) and (2) the Theory of Human Nature and (3) the Theory of Reality (Ontology) and (4) the Theory of Governing(Political Theory) and (5) the Theory of Truth and (6) the Theory of Knowledge(Epistemology) generally; and when we observe at first the characterization as a whole which is gotten as a natural consequence by illuminating and scrutinizing and imbossing and coloring the thought core in modern fashion on all of these fields, it goes as follows: the spirit-cultivationism(moral improvement) and personalism in the Theory of Spiritual Cultivation, moralism and valueism(getting nearer to the intrinsic value) and idealism in the Theory of Human Nature, the `idealistic-realistic` humanism and mentalism in the Ontology, the Wangism(governing with virtue) and humanitarianism and rationalism in the Theory of Governing, the behaviorism and practicalism in the Epistemology etc. are those.