신-인 관계 토대로서 심-미적 실존 연구 - 키에르케고어의 미적 실존에 슐라이어마허의 의존감정을 잇댐으로써-

Abstract

The Protestant relationship between God and humanity, which was traditionally biased toward truth and goodness, was inevitably subject to distortion due to reductionism. At the level of reason, which emphasized God’s one-sidedness, God had the initiative in the relationship between God and man. God’s unilateral exercise of initiative led to human oppression. In this tradition that emphasizes the inevitability of God, human possibilities are completely excluded. When the transcendence of God was emphasized, humans were reduced to a relationship of subordination to God, and when they became absorbed in the immanence of God, humans became identified with nature. In the latter case, it resulted in the tragedy of humans being dissolved into nature. Meanwhile, in the dimension of goodness after the Enlightenment, the volitional subject, which is an axis of the relationship between God and man, came to the fore, leading to the deification of the subject. The tendency to absolutize human potential fueled arrogant subjects and ultimately resulted in human alienation. The author noted that the traditional Protestant distortion of the God-human relationship, which leads to human oppression and alienation, is based on a fragmentary and reductionist understanding of humans, given that the view of God is a reflection of human self-understanding. Accordingly, this paper attempted to transition to a holistic understanding of humans. In the process of conducting research on aesthetic existence as the basis for the relationship between God and man, a method of analyzing Kierkegaard’s aesthetic existence and Schleiermacher’s feelings of dependence was used. In conclusion, it can be seen that the aesthetic existence revealed in the two thinkers points to the existence of a whole person in which possibility and sin are mutually intertwined. This aesthetic understanding of existence, which rejects the fragmentary understanding of human beings that reduces them to a single element of the human mind, overcomes the limitations of the classical view of God and serves as a stepping stone to infuse vitality and dynamism into modern God-human relationships.