This report starts from critically recognizing the limitations produced from pre-existing Chosun family research, which just focuses on the system of clan code, spread of patriarchic family ideas, and the fall of women`s social position. Although the ...
This report starts from critically recognizing the limitations produced from pre-existing Chosun family research, which just focuses on the system of clan code, spread of patriarchic family ideas, and the fall of women`s social position. Although the family problem cannot be discussed without considering the issue of idea or institution, at the same time, the fact that family relationship and individual`s identity are constructively connected by emotional memory should not be overlooked. Under such critical mind, this report attempts to discuss family emotion that centers around the understanding on Nong-am Kim Chang-Hyup, a Confucian scholar from the late Chosun dynasty, as well as the family emotion embodied in an essay on the memory of a dead female family. It will try to overcome the limitation on discussing family just through ideological or institutional aspects by examining family emotion and cognition on woman through a male Confucian scholar`s memory on a dead female family. To effectively approach these discussions, the report will be dealt with in these three stages. First, it will observe how the understanding of emotion is handled in Nong-am`s philosophy. Next, by analyzing Nong-am`s essays for the female family, the report will examine Nong-am`s family emotion on female family. Through these discussions, it is possible to discover a new understanding condition on the late Chosun dynasty`s family and based on this, it can approach the understanding on female in Chosun Confucianism.