『天符經』에 내재한 우리나라의 고유사상에 관한 연구(一)

Abstract

The Sacred Book of Heaven is a Korean's traditional thought and is the best and the oldest scripture in the human civilization in the world. It also is the most profound one compared to any scripture exists. The essence of this scripture is the universal cosmological theory aiming the unification of opposite sides. It is not only the source of the all religions including the Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism and the universal theory of unification that is the ultimate aim of all philosophers and scientists in the history. That is, the Sacred Book of Heaven is the origin of all philosophies and sciences with the theory of cosmological balance. The ways of analyzing this scripture are vary. It can be analyzed by philosophical, scientific approaches as well as deviation and way to reach Tao. The most important thing is that this scripture is a Korea's traditional thought and origin. It also is the origin of the thought of Northeast Asia and all thoughts of human civilization. It is the timely task to understand the scripture correctly to set up the Korea's cultural identity and globalize when many begin to realize that the Asian culture is the origin of the human civilization. The aims of this study are analyzing value of the Sacred Book of Heaven correctly as a origin of the universal thought of all human beings. Doing so, it will promote self-esteem of the Korean people with the tradition by rebuilding culture that is destroyed by impact of the Western thoughts. Korean cultural identity was damaged by the adoption of Western science and materialism without criticism that must be revitalized. As a result, Korea will recover its significance as the birth place of ethics and philosophy of Asia and globalize Korean cultural identity.