동양 고전의 생명인문학— 채식주의의 생명평등 의식에 대한 고찰을 중심으로

Abstract

This article deals with the consciousness of life in East Asia as a kind of poetry for the establishment of life humanities. There are contradictions and cyclical relationships between death and generation, eating and eating in life phenomena. Humans can pay attention to contradictory relationships or cyclical relationships while observing this life phenomenon. At this time, it can be said that vegetarianism was mainly focused on contradictory relationships. Based on this point, this article examines the perception of life in East Asia under the theme of the main issues raised in vegetarianism. The argument for vegetarianism itself has existed since ancient times, but what we deal with here is practical vegetarianism based on ethical philosophy. In principle, these topics generally do not explicitly form a point of contact with ancient humanities in East Asia, but they may lead to communication between modern philosophy and classical humanities. Chapter 2 summarizes ethical vegetarianism, and they argue that creatures that can feel pleasure and pain (utilitarianism) or who become the subject of life (moral rights theory) with an understanding of the outside world are all equal. In East Asia, animals are beings who feel pleasure, pain, and desire for life, but this is common as a lower limit between humans and animals, and there are differences between humans, animals, and animals. At this time, even if you agree that animals feel pain, it is a different matter whether you sympathize with the pain. Therefore, although it is recognized that animals have pain, it tends to be regarded as a phenomenon that can be ignored, and in the minority, it is argued that the right to seek happiness of animals and the right to survive should be protected in sympathy with animal suffering. In conclusion, “absolute equality between humans and animals” is not a logical condition relationship for “No killing” and there is no logical inevitability between the two. However, in order to discuss this point in more depth, the first quadrant’s “absolute equality between humans and animals” and “criticism of ethnicity” should be dealt with, and this is the main thesis of this paper, but it cannot be dealt with here due to paper relations, so it will be dealt with in a follow-up paper.