Taking over and developing Korean traditional culture inheritances and achieving something great in the field of educational thought, Dasan had tried to research the Confucian Classics and interpreted newly their original thought in the position of Sh...
Taking over and developing Korean traditional culture inheritances and achieving something great in the field of educational thought, Dasan had tried to research the Confucian Classics and interpreted newly their original thought in the position of Shil-Hak (Korean Practical Science, 實學). The author would like to study in this thesis Dasan's point of view on morality through his own interpretation on the Four Confucian Classics, define his theory on the moral educational thought and study to find out some helpful aspects which could influence the current thought on moral education.
First, Ch'□n (Heaven, 天) is the almighty creator and supervisor as the origin of morality. And it can rule human being through its own will, which is a kind of command transmited to human being.
Its command is perceived through our own Do-Shim (moral mind, 道心). We could come nearer to the perfect condition of morality when we would try to obey its will.
Second, Dasan has argued human real nature would be equivalent to preference : preference would be composed of physical and moral preference. Moral preference leading us to good belongs to only human being and we could be the moral being who can distinguish good from evil.
And lastly, mankind should live with others. Perfect virtue( 仁 ) means two persons( 人+人), which appears our duty to be done in human relationships. Dasan said that perfect virtue could be gained as the result of our behavior in real lives, not the gifted mental condition.
The study on Dasan's thoughts of moral education is as follows:
First, the standard of the humanly act bases on moderation. Moderation might be changed according to the objects and the situations. And it is achieved by Sh□( 恕 ), that is, one's attitude of understanding others by putting himself in another's places.
Second, Dasan's moral principle means the sutable relationship in the various human joint. He thought the various manners According to the moral principles important.
Lastly, Dasan showed us Hyo(Filial piety, 孝 )·Che(Brotherly love, 弟 )·Cha (Benevolence, 慈 ) as the contents of moral education. They were taught and used as the moral principle between only the members of family at home until his days but he had studyed to expand the concept of them as the canon of society. Therefore he said the leader who would be the perfect man with being moral educated well could realize Hyo, Che, Cha. And he had expected the moral teacher should own the idealistic character originated from the perfect leader's personality.
The author thinks Dasan's viewpoint of morality based on the dignity of man could influence the current society which is unstable in the of crisis morality. Manly life should go with ones' moral activities. I can say that the moral activity could be perfect by the fit human relationalships. As the result, moral education could be the bitality and show us the right direction for social change when it would be practised in order to cause the right human relationships.