食生活敎育의 哲學

Abstract

This article is a study on the philosophical idea and practical methods for the education of contemporary Korean's better food lives referring to Asian traditional wisdoms as well as to contemporary scientific researches about the important influences of human food life on the whole system of lives on the earth. Theory of a biology of cognition, for example Autopoiesis, embodiment, is referred to for the sake of making the traditional wisdoms and their practice rightful. And it is argued that the traditional wisdoms of Asian philosophy must be applied to the contemporary Korean's food life. The specially stressed are three. The first, human food lives are related very closely not only to one's personal life but also to the whole life system of the earth, and thus it is very important to build up a better food life habit. The second, the better habit must root in the old ones and be modified to the contemporary life styles. The last, it will be hopeful to construct a culture of food life that would not loose the everyone's attitude with reverence to the human personal life and the whole life on the earth.