The Study on Misu Heo-Mok(眉叟 許穆)’s Hermeneutics of Shihjing

In the 17th century, when Heo Mok lived, was a time when a new order was urgently needed. After the Japanese Invasion of Korea in 1592, the economic life of the people became impoverished, and the social order was also confused. Based on this theoretical basis, the 17th century can be said to be the stage of Bungdang politics(朋黨政治) in which political issues are applied to practical problems based on the theory of each school. On the other hand, Neo-Confucianism did not play a proper role in overcoming the problems of reality that were impoverished in society as a whole through the Japanese Invasion of Korea in 1592 and the Byeongja War in 1636. Therefore, it was a time when the debate and confrontation intensified between Seoin-line(西人系) scholars who wanted to solve real problems by further developing the logic of Confucianism and Namin-line(南人系) scholars who opposed it and tried to solve social problems with their own theories. In this historical background, Heo Mok was in charge of one of the pillars of the Yesong thesis(禮訟論爭). Heo Mok saw Yukgyeong as a coherent system and tried to solve the problems of Joseon at that time. he tried to find the original meaning of Confucius Confucianism. Therefore, he tried to restore the principles of Joseon's reign at the time, paying attention to the function of satire that emphasized the interpretation of the model, although he followed the poetry collection, which was the interpretation of Ju-hee. On the other hand, in terms of nature and emotion, he tried to inherit the Neo-Confucian system of neisheng-waiwang 內聖外王(inner-sageness and outer- kingliness) by accepting Ju-hee's theory of nature and emotion as it is.