인간 성화 문제에 관한 시론 : 조선시대 공인된 유교의 성현들을 통해서 본 성스러운 인간

Abstract

Nothing is more general thing than human beings used for concreting the world. Various sacred humans also have been made in Joseon Dynasty. I have meant to investigate the 18 sages worshipped in The State Temple of Confucius in Joseon(Munmyo 文廟). as an example of this general imagination in this essay. Actually I have mentioned only some representative sages of the 18 sages: Choi Chi-won(崔致遠), An Hyang(安珦), Jo Gwang-jo(趙光組), Yi Hwang(李滉). The processes of selections of sages, who should be worshipped in the Temple of Confucius, accomplished with political background is fundamentally the work neo-Confucianist had intended to establish genealogically the orthodoxy of School of Zhu Xi(朱子學/道學) in Joseon Dynasty. The select processes were not different from the work which a group to secure the political power had symbolically justified his power. It was explicitly revealed in this example that the imagination expressed in these processes was truly political. It might be comparable to western saint canonization after which had been institutionalized. Therefore it might be naturally thought a kind of saint worship. But if we conform to this concept, we will collide against the wall this example reveals a completely political character. If we consider the fact the early version of saint worship was more popular, it is more persuasive. The proper. As it is studied with a hero worship, we will meet the familiar issue metamorphosis of religious imagination into political one. Examining this issue I have meant to understand as a whole the mechanism of human sacralization reproduced in Joseon Dynasty. We are to reconfirm the legitimism of School of Zhu Xi in Joseon Dynasty. Also, we reaffirm the general character emphasizing intelligence and virtue in select processes of sages. By this investigation I will speculate the world-sense exchangeable in the state that intellectual, political, religious dimensions were amorphous. Lastly, this examination, as limited one in classes, demands subsequent studies in the larger context which shoud depict Joseon peoples 'the map for sacred human.'