플라톤-소크라테스의 엘렝코스와 나가르주나의 공의 논리에 대한 상호문화적 읽기

Abstract

This is the paper about the intercultural reading on Plato-Socratic elenchos and Nāgārjuna's Logic of emptiness based on the method of intercultural interpretation of Mall. From an intercultural point of view, all the cultures in the world have their own different characters. but it is possible to communicate each other because of the overlapping (Überlappung). We can divide the concept of overlapping into that of the universal dimension and the particular dimension(the cases in the cultural context) of overlapping. Generally speaking, we can start intercultural dialogues from the universal dimension of overlapping, and then go through the cases, complete in the intercultural universal concept. The intercultural reading on Plato-Socratic elenchos and Nāgārjuna's logic of emptiness begins with the universal dimension of overlapping, which is the method of discussion to think or investigate philosophically. And then the intercultural reading lead to the particular dimension(the cases in the cultural context) of overlapping, namely, the similarities and differences in the dimension of cases. The dimension of cases is divided into the side of the target and the refutation. There are two sides the target and the refutation, with which we want to expose the target, in elenchos and logic of emptiness. Indirect method and and logical legitimacy in refutation are the moment of similarities. but the structures of refutation, namely, the single negation in elenchos and the double negation in logic of emptiness, are the moment of differences. The similarities on side of the target aim not to fall into skepticism, because they have the philosophical position which we can expose through the refutation. The differences are the differences in the kinds of knowledges, the first is a kind of reasonable knowledge, the second is a kind of irrational/intuitive insight like Madhyamā Pratipad(中道). Therefore, in the intercultural reading on elenchos and logic of emptiness, the dimension of cases in overlapping(which appears in the moments of the similarities and differences) lies in the center, and the final aim is to demonstrate whether elenchos and logic of emptiness, though they have the moment differences, are the methods of philosophical argumentations or not.