A Spirit that man should excuse other's faults and never lose his temper based on the conception of benevolence, confucianist's morale which became independent from before the Korea Dynasty, began to disappear from after the reign of Myung-joug in the...
A Spirit that man should excuse other's faults and never lose his temper based on the conception of benevolence, confucianist's morale which became independent from before the Korea Dynasty, began to disappear from after the reign of Myung-joug in the middle of the Rhee Dynasty.
Neglecting utility and being indulged in academic contro-versies, people were drawn into the vortex of partiality for a party. At that time, it was justice, the spirit searching justly for what is right, that Man-hoe emphasized, and he cultivated the spirit coinciding learning and virtue by making it a standard to practise ever thing with devotion And he handed down to his descendants like Tan-ong(Kwun-shi) the spirit searching for righteousness in daily life, beginning with the spirit of never losing one's temper. He was not drawn to a party opinion and developed the thought which corresponded to realism in the reign of Young-jo and Jung-jo, the Renaissance morale of our country.