21세기 유교 담론의 새로운 구도와 전망 - 爲己之學 연구에 대한 성찰을 중심으로 -

Abstract

In this article it is insisted with some new compositions of discourses that radical changes are asked in the field of studies or discourses on Confucianism. In this article, it is regarded as the most important purpose of studying or discourses on Confucianism that Confucianism must be re-interpreted as a traditional wisdom which can resolve many of chronic problems of contemporary mankind and can improve the quality of contemporary human lives. And new and adequate styles or methodologies of Confucian studies and discourses are discussed. Three problematic phenomena or currents are observed in contemporary studies or dicourses on Confucianism in Korean academic field: the first is that most of them remain in abstract and out of touch with reality, the second is that most of them are activated only in the departed section of philosophy or pedagogy etc., and the third is that most of them make very little communication with interdisciplinary studies or integrated sciences. Therefore how to overcome or solve these problematic things is the significant discussion of this article. However the discussion focuses on the Confucian methodology of self-organization namely Sage-learning, and at the same time focuses on the way how to discourse about Confucianism as a civilization in the era that stresses on reinterpretation of traditional wisdom and on development of ethics for co-existence with peoples from civilizations of different nature.