21세기 문명과 박지원의 생태 정신

Abstract

The ecological thought is essential, having relationship with realism and civilization. So this study pays attention to the ecological thought of Yeon-Am, Park, Ji-won, a scholar of practical science in the latter term of Chosun dynasty. His ecological thought is examined closely in three aspects. The first aspect is the ecology of a living creature. Yeon-Am thought that human and nature have a mutual close sympathy. Nature is a breathing, living creature, being born, growing up and is changing. The sound and move of all things itself is a literature and an art. Yeon-Am considered the active move of nature as an action of human being. It means that his ecological thought is based on the reality and the civilization. The second is the ecology of ‘middle’. Park, Ji-won refused the attitude of dichotomy, claiming to look into carefully the middle of between this point and that point. This interval, a middle, is the standing point of all being together and the very point of destroying the grade of raking the value. He tried to place a center into the same space as a perimeter, dissecting the centrism. The third is the ecology of ‘Myoung-Sim’. Myoung-Sim is a practical concept of revealing the attitude of confronting the reality. Its practical meaning is firstly to watch the world objectively without any prejudice, secondly to deny oneself, thirdly to make oneself empty and to free oneself from the false. The ecological though of Park, Ji-won has important meaning in reaching the practical, not staying only in a concept.