중국 원시신화의 자연관 및 인간학 체계와 그 문화적 이상

Abstract

This essay intends to inquire into the paradigm of the view of nature and humanics contained in the Chinese primordial myth as the pre understanding for the purpose of the investigation of the view of nature and humanics developed complexly and variously in the primitive thought and philosophy of the Chinese antiquity according to the object of cultural idealism. And this thesis would retrace the origin of Chinese myth so that one might offer an outlook on the world oriented to human societies of the future in contemporary civilization, which follows to the world view of modern west seeing subjectivity and objectivity in the oppositive point of view around renaissance of western modern periods. Especially, while prescribing equilibrium and harmony between man and nature through emotional feelings and cultural as the core motto of the futuristic world view through which one improves several social‐cultural and environmental problems of contemporary societies, this treatise is going to reflect on the view of nature and humanics having been implied in the Chinese time immemorial myth. Recognition of nature, moral order of life in human societies, and accomplishment of cultural ideal of all Chinese primordial myths can be discovered in narratives about the first creation of heaven and earth. Through these myths we are convinced that human nature have been invested with the infinite creativity and productivity of heaven and earth,and took after figure of god of creation from the period of first creation. Also, creation myth by inspiration[感生神話] among the Chinese primordial myths would represent symbolically their miraculous and supernatural powers by adding mysterious elements to the creation of an emperor, the founder, and a great man. In Confucianism, the propriety[禮] is not only a simple model of behavior pass current merely in human societies, but also the best principle that endow all natural phenomena with the regulative order and by which the Heaven and man are communicate with each other. The fidelity and confidence is also classical action principle through which one put morality into practice concretely in human societies, originally reveals its essential meaning while man communicating with the God of the heaven. Like this, in the meaning of ‘civilization and culture of human nature and new self‐consciousness of man’ academic research and investigation which can be called as Neo‐Renaissance Movement could make men establish new outlook, on which they overcome many difficulties and the several negative points.