정상성으로의 귀환 - 서구이론 편향의 극복을 위한 성찰

Abstract

This paper is starting from a reflection on the study of West- European philosophy and the humanities in which Korean philosophers have a main interest. Specially, the arguments about theories and their histories of the western social philosophy now seem to be a main stream in Korea, but the role of its enlightenment has been exhausted very rapidly. In case of social philosophy, it is a necessary to go up to the phase of normal characteristic philosophy that communicates with realities. I will call it 'the return to the normal Social philosophy in Korea'. In order to reach this phase, the philosophical subjects must be found in a concrete existence of ordinary life. This is very important to get a self-identity for Korean social philosophy to be able to contribute world-wide philosophical debates. The social philosophers in Korea now have to endeavor to make a conceptual frame with which man can catch a changing speed of the Korean society and its peculiarities. As a social philosophic instance, I am trying to analyze the aspects of modern-self which are introduced and shaped in the Korean modernization process in this paper. This analysis leads to show the unique feature of the self-identity of Korean. In this paper, I am also trying to examine the various viewpoints of the self-identity of the family members, as a instance which supports this investigates. According to this examination, the aspect of modern self of Korean has a very different form comparing with its West- European form. Through this work, I am trying to give a guideline to shape a normal social philosophical way in Korea which communicate with concrete realities. It is a great honor, if the validity of my arguments would be thoroughly proved by the participants.