道原 柳承國 선생의 회통정신과 평화사상

Abstract

Dowon Ryu Seung-gook(1923-2011) sought to present the possibility of a new open philosophy that would go beyond conflicts and confrontations between ideology, religion, culture, and state, and find a new alternative in the mindset and ideas of Koreans who identified it as the fruits of korean culture. The core concepts of Dowon's studies and ideas are critical consilience and convergence, humanism and peace, and in order to explore them, in order to seek this, Dowon mobilized an academic method that harmoniously combines the characteristics of Eastern and Korean thought in various aspects. Based on this, Dowon pursued the macroscopic goals of humanism and world peace, and to this end, it sought world peace based on human-centered ideas, philosophy, and respect for human beings in the Korean way of thinking and thought structure. The Korean thought revealed by Dowon can be summarized into four characteristics as follows. First, the logical structure in which Koreans perceive the world has an intellectual tradition of fusing two mutually contradictory relations into a dimension of harmony. Second, the logical structure of harmony and convergence in which Koreans perceive the world is attributed to human problems. Third, Koreans aimed for mature humans based on human love and pursued a mature society where mature humans lived together. Fourth, Koreans have a strong desire for a peaceful world and have continued their specific philosophy for it. In this way, Dowon was convinced that the principle of solving various conflict problems in modern society lies in Korean thought, and based on the open mind of bringing all truths together, and prayed for a world where all people in the world grow into mature people.