김종삼 시에 나타난 唯美的 表象과 道德 感情의 有機性 硏究

Abstract

Focusing on sentiments, particularly on moral sentiment, which under- lie Jong-Sam Kim's aesthetic tendencies, this discussion tries to illuminate that a beautiful and unreal poetic context which this poet formalizes, and a sentiment which is evoked from that context, contain more meaning than his construction of an aesthetic world valid only for the inside of his poetry. This is, so to speak concretely, to restore a signification of his rec- ognition about reality, which his poetry implies, by showing that senti- ments in his poetic context strongly suggest moral sentiment toward this world. And by making Immanuel Kant's theory of moral sentiment a foun- dation of interpretation, what is to be presented is a reason to explain how sentiments, which he reveals through his poetry, can result in moral sentiment beyond intimate and passive sentiments coming from their contacts with the outer beings. Kant said that one's action is to have a true moral value when it is to be done according not to a sentiment as a tendency but to a duty. A moral principle is “a principle of what never would be really but should be justly,” that is, a principle as what should be. Moral sentiment signifies the sentiment of ‘esteem' for just this principle. This sentiment is the Moralische Gefühl that Kant called. To Jong-Sam Kim, what evokes the ‘esteem' as moral sentiment is to be a world of beauty. To make a beau- tiful world is just moral and a duty that humans must practice. This aesthetic world is, so to speak concretely, a world communicating with the good. This poet communicates his moral sentiment by being aware that he is a stranger, an exile, and an alienated from this world. Defining this moral principle, Kant excluded sentiments as tendencies but admitted that a feeling(sensibility) as an awareness is a motive to force to practice. Pity for the other, and disgust of or disillusion at evil or ugliness, in Jong-Sam Kim's poetry, are to be interpreted as sentiments being more meaningful than those as brief tendencies disappearing as soon as occurring. A reason of this interpretation is that his awareness of sensible objects and duties is contained within sentiments which he reveals. This sentiment as an awareness is to be simultaneously a recognition about reality and a moral aspect that he tries to reveal through his poetry.