전통사상적 관점에서 본 2·28민주운동 결의문의 정신과 의미

Abstract

As the Anniversary of the February 28th Democracy Movement, the Start of the Democracy movement in the Republic of Korea, to resist corruption and oppression by the Liberal Party, was designated as a National Memorial Day in 2018, the historical value of the February 28th Democracy Movement was officially recognized. The task left for us now is to enhance, remember, celebrate, and inherit the value of the February 28th Democracy Movement and to make it embodied in the present spirit and values. With this background in mind, this study attempts to analyze the resolutions of the February 28th Democracy Movement from a traditional korean thought perspective. Furthermore, I try to analyze the slogans shouted from the February 28th Democracy Movement, interviews of the leaders of the February 28th Democracy Movement, and various records left by them in order to broaden our understanding of the spirit and meaning. Although the resolutions of the February 28th Democracy Movement can be linked with various elements of traditional korean thought, this study attempts to analyze the resolutions of the February 28th Democracy Movement through the practical ethics of Confucian idea, righteousness and progressiveness. Righteousness is to pursue continuous self-reform by recognizing the right principles of human beings, and to realize what is reasonable in concrete reality by a sense of social criticism. Progressiveness is to pursue reform according to the situation of the times, to lead public opinion to solve social problems, and to promote new changes first. From a viewpoint of traditional korean thought, the February 28th Democracy Movement was to express a practice of rightousness that is pursuing moral legitimacy and criticizing what is not right and a sprit of reformation and creativity which opens a new era by taking the lead in solving social evils. Inheriting the spirit of the February 28th Democracy Movement is to realizing social justice first that fits our times in our local community.