장일순 종교회통론적 생명사상의 정당화 문제와 생명운동론의 생태철학적 의미 - 이준모의 종교생태학적, 생태노동론적 관점을 기반으로 -

Abstract

This article discusses how the life perception-oriented religious harmony theory of Jang Il-soon can be justified and demonstrate what is the eco-philosophical implication of the Hansalim movement that he advocated. Jang Il-soon harmonized Taoism, Christianity, Buddhism, and others around the life perspective. This type of religious harmony theory is justified under the notion that all these religions deny the egoistic self-ego that leads to the inevitable denial of objectification and exploitation of nature. Furthermore, he made it even more clarified with the point that the natural is present with self-sacrifice as well as the point that each and individual natural matter is an universal being through the dialogue of Taoism and Buddhism in a way of demonstrating that the life-oriented dialogue and communication among various religions could bring out the religious ecological features even more meaningful integrated thinking as well. Another value of Jang Il-soon’s view on life is that he endeavored to realize his ideals through the ecological movement. He initiated the so-called Hansalim movement, and within the movement, he worked on the life culture movement that intended to ecologically change commercial affairs based on ecological agriculture, which would have significant implications in the eco-labor aspect of eco-labor theory. More than anything else, by breaking away from the suppression of nature and state of human isolation from the commercial and industrial mentality and technology for a prolonged period of time, the agricultural and commercial technologies are organically unified around the life-sustaining purpose in a way of demonstrating the possibility of collaborated labor between human and nature as well as human to human that could be dispersed to society in full scale.