고려시기 伊尹 故事와 그에 나타난 군신관계

Abstract

The present study aims to reveal the idea of the relationship between king and bureaucrat in the Goryeo Dynasty, by investigating how the interpretations of Yiyin(伊尹)’s story had been changed. Yiyin was a bureaucrat who helped King Tang(湯) to found China Shang(商) and assisted Tang’s successor Taijia(太甲) by teaching him king’s duty. The ruling class of the early Goryeo considered that Yiyin was an ideal bureaucrat and such an interpretation lasted until the late Goryeo era. Yet the story was then reinterpreted to justify the aspects of expelling king by bureaucrat in the late and very late Goryeo period. The cases of justification can be found Choi Chungheon(崔忠獻)’s dethronement of kings, Kwon Hangong(權漢功)’s attempt to expel King Chunghyeo(忠惠王), and the dethronement of King Gongyang(恭讓王) who was the last king of Goryeo. The reasons for the reinterpretation are the weakening of king’s authority in the actual political situation of the late Goryeo Dynasty and an new academic atmosphere that emphasized Mengzi(孟子) from the Neo-Confucianism’s perspective.