한국교육사상의 기반으로서 원시종교

Abstract

In this study, I raised two questions about the value of primitive religion as the basis of the Korean educational idea. One is how Korean scholars understand primitive religion in educational ideas. In general, researchers from the 1940s to the 1960s tended to understand primitive religions as uncivilized ideas or superstitions. This view was influenced by rationalism or scientism, and they understood the characteristics of primitive religion in an overly intellectual way. However, the primitive religious mind and the mentality of primitive man are valuable to modern people living in the era of written civilization as the core of oral civilization and valuable as educational ideas in the future society. Another problem I raised is the issue of including the mentality of primitive religions in the tradition of Simhak (心學, Korean philosophy of mind), a characteristic of traditional Korean thoughts. Many Western scholars, including C. Jung, have already studied the mentality of primitive man, and Korean scholars have also paid attention to the archetype of Korean mentality since the 1970s. In conclusion, the minds of primitive man in primitive religions are worth re-examining as modern educational ideas. For this purpose, scholars should consider how primitive oral culture shapes primitive mentality. In this article, I pointed out that attention should be paid to the collectivity, orality, narrative, and ritual of the myth.