9200 years ago Heavenly Emperor Hanin, the founder of the first Korean entity Hanguk received the 'Five Lessons of Hanin' from the Heavenly god. Although there was no writing system, Heavenly Emperor Hanin thoroughly maintained the Lessons as an oral ...
9200 years ago Heavenly Emperor Hanin, the founder of the first Korean entity Hanguk received the 'Five Lessons of Hanin' from the Heavenly god. Although there was no writing system, Heavenly Emperor Hanin thoroughly maintained the Lessons as an oral tradition. It may be possible because of the strong education policy. The next generation, Emperor Hanung, the founder of the Sinsi Baidalguk inherited the 'Five Lessons of Hanin' and edited into the 'Six Lessons of Hanung' as a national policy to develop the thought of benevolence and the culture of filial piety education for 1,565 years. The next generation Dangunwanggeom, the founder of Old Joseon developed those thoughts with the adoption of the 'Eight Rules of Dangun.' Again, it was the result of the strong education policy.
During China's Warring States Period and the Spring and Autumn Period Confucius thoroughly adopted the Korea's Three Sagas' thought of benevolence and filial piety culture to overcome the era of no thought, no education, no teacher and no religion. As an essences of those thoughts, Confucius established a world class Confucianism with six scriptures. Hanin Heavenly Emperor who received the thought of benevolence and filial piety culture from the Heavenly god made the benevolence and filial piety as the cores of the education policy. It became the fundamental policy of the three sagas of Korea. Confucius adopted this tradition and became the key of his thought. Confucius' thought introduced to Korea during the Three Kingdoms period and Goryeo developed as Joseon did.
However, Korea lost this tradition since the modern time while adopting the western education thoughts without criticism. This study tries to restore the legacy of the drigin of morality with philosophy. To achieve this goal, this study examines the thoughts of education periodically to overcome the lack of philosophy and morality.