한국유교에 나타난 전통과 근대의 불연속성 -儒敎資本主義論을 중심으로-

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to point out discontinuity of tradition and modernity that Korean main Confucianism exposed, which revolves around Confucian capitalism. This work especially presents the necessary condition to be basically required for Confucian capitalism to have an historical and logical suitability It was 'Japanese imperialistic Confucianism' that Japanese colonialists and the pro-Japanese Confucians had claimed as main Confucianism during the time of anti-Japanese battle(from the time lost the sovereignty of Chosun to August 15,1945). Main Confucianism has been variously changed to anticommunism in the 1950s and 1960s, military nationalism in the 1970s and 1980s, Confucian capitalism in the 1990s, Confucian ecology in the 2000s and "global moral civilization" in the 2010s. Supposing the thought is the organism consists of 'joints' and 'links' which change their appearances every age, the main Confucianism that is adressed here can be defined as 'the study stuck to power' or 'the study as the part of power'. In this thesis Confucian capitalism which is the best core among the changeable appearance of the Korean main Confucian each age and the links of the afterwards and before of Confucian capitalism are examined. First, the fact that Confucian capitalism is the combination of the different elements is pointed out. And then which link is needed for this inner contradictions to be connected with the afterward discussions is expained in this thesis. This process informs Discontinuity between tradition and modernity lies in Korean main Confucianism which is great contradiction. This inevitably brings out mismatching of times and circumstances. Main Confucianism adopts metaphysical and history-transcendental methodology to avoid this problem. But the relationship of two category, tradition and modernity,has to be set up precisely to be successful in this methodology. This work is exactly the academic practice that Confucianism is on the right way and keeps its eyes on the tendency that Korean Confucian capitalism and Sinocentrism is put together to be cultural conservatism or nationalism.