차이위안페이(蔡元培)의 미육사상(美育思想) 연구: “미육으로 종교를 대신하자[以美育代宗敎]” 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this report is to examine Cai Yuanpei’s formation of aesthetic education thoughts and to seek modern meaning by analyzing his representative opinion, feature and limitation ‘replace religion with aesthetic education’. Cai Yuanpei was at the center of Confucian ideas enough to be the National Academy of the highest editing. At a time of upheaval, however, to save the country broadly acceptants Western civilization. Especially, he criticized China’s traditional Confucian ideas, suffering from the gong-gyo problem and through this, insisted to Midwest history of harmony. Cai Yuanpei criticized scientism through diagram of ‘science+art’ and then established aesthetic education thoughts that must be advanced with art. From then on, he had a scientific, objective attitude about religion, insisting that replace religion with aesthetic education. In other words, he ignores just as it can’t be scientifically proved a religious belief. As a result, it is nothing but regarded religion as abstract thing. And he insisted that aesthetic education possible to establish standardization, paradigm is able to replace religion. However aesthetic education doesn’t have alternative method like a indulgence, understanding of death, afterlife. Therefore, aesthetic education belongs to the other category, since this isn’t the personality that can replace one another, it can’t substitute religion. Nevertheless, his opinion, ‘replace religion with aesthetic education’ made reconsider position and awareness of the role of religion. In addition is providing the complementary way and motivation to seek.