간재(艮齋)『중용기의(中庸記疑)』의 특징 연구 - 수장(首章) 분석을 중심으로 - = A Study Characteristics of Jungyonggieui of Gan-Jae - Based on Chapter 1 analysis

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study examines the characteristics of Study of Confucian Classics by analyzing annotation on Jungyonggieui of Gan-Jae Jeon-Woo. To do this, quantitative analysis method constitute a method to more clearly examine Gan-jae’s annotations for Confucian classics. In addition, when analyzing the notes, the author took a stance of fully respecting Gan-Jae as a Confucian scholar.
The quantitative analysis method divides the text into chapters, sections, and paragraphs and identifies ‘in what chapter, section, or paragraph the author left many annotations.’ Of course, just because the author left many annotations in a certain chapter does not necessarily mean the chapter is important. However, it would help to ascertain the key message if many annotations are viewed as an attempt to ‘interpret the intended meaning of the original author quite in detail.’ Therefore, quantitative analysis results serve as the foundation to comprehend a in a more fine-tuned way. These method is one of the most widely used analytical method that identifies the ‘intended meaning of the author’ and ‘read between the lines(微言大義)’.
What does Gan-jae emphasize in his Jungyonggieui? Chapter 1, section 1 of Jungyonggieui states ‘what Heaven confers is referred to as nature. Gan-jae continues to annotate the ‘Heaven’ letter along with the ‘nature’ letter to identify the intended meaning of ‘Heaven’. The second annotated letters following ‘Heaven’ are ‘energy’ and ‘conferred nature’. By presenting the original meaning of ‘energy’ and ‘nature’, he notes ‘right learning’. The third annotated letters are ‘what Heaven confers is called nature(天命之謂性)’. Gan-jae highlights that our ‘Confucianism’s essence(儒家宗主)’ lies in ‘respecting nature’ ‘nature’ in ‘what Heaven confers is called nature’. This is the ‘Confucianism’ found by Gan-jae. It states mind should be Sungsasimje(性師心弟) and mind should be based on nature and paraphrases mind should neither argue against right sense nor it should be used for oneself’.