This thesis focuses on understanding of Dock-Goc Seong Seak Lin`s Thought. Dok Gok had successively filled YoungUiJungBuSa which was just like the Prime Minister posts three times in 1402, in 1409, and in 1412 which was at his age 65, 68, and 75. On J...
This thesis focuses on understanding of Dock-Goc Seong Seak Lin`s Thought. Dok Gok had successively filled YoungUiJungBuSa which was just like the Prime Minister posts three times in 1402, in 1409, and in 1412 which was at his age 65, 68, and 75. On June 13th 1395, when he was 58 years old, more importantly, he made his entrance into an official position of the first Mayor of Hansung (called ``ChoDaePanHanSungBuSa``), the capital of Joseon dynasty. In the following year, in summer, he was appointed the GeaSungYuHuSaYuHu. He left his poems continued to the number 459 that he had composed when he was alive. When King Taejongjo kept the throne for 18 years, Dok Gok had been playing as BoGukJiShin in which his role was to assist the King while staying right beside, and Dok Gok`s fulfillment was recorded on TaeJongSilRok in detail. Nineteen years after Dok Gok`s death, the King Sejong ordered KyungYeonKwan(who was a national tutorial group for the King) to arrange and publish Dok Gok`s posthumous papers. According to the preface of Mo Si, ``it is traditionally said that such a poetry would be the place on which the meaning would be located, the meaning should be rooted in the mind, and a poetry would be created by expressed words.`` In the same way, during his lifetime, Dok Gok left 459 poems expressed by the words based on the meanings from his mind. Also, Dok Gok`s poems were handed down during 600 years until now. I looked into the eternally and absolutely righteous philosophical idea of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism by examining the chosen ten poems from Dok Gok`s posthumous poetry. In the ten poems, the word, YumRakKwanMinJiHak, which means Neo Confucianism, were referred. Inasmuch as I wrote Confucianism in the Era of Song and Neo Confucianism of Korean and I have specialized in Confucianism and Neo Confucianism, I am able to examine and analyze Dok Gok`s poems with professional perspective. The finding showed that Dok Gok was a prominent and thorough philosopher of Confucianism and he had a profound knowledge in Philosophy of Taoism and Buddhism.