점(占): 우연 사태 속의 철학적 의제

Abstract

This paper treats with meanings for philosophical topics that actions on divination involve. So many philosophical meanings be involved in the actions of divination. The divination also typically is regarded as actions which is predicting about affairs of the future, and human being's attention will be concentrated on whether a result from his action of the divination exactly appears as the 'actual world' in the space time of the future which he wished to get a result through the divination that he had attempted at the beginning. Its substantive and anthropological meaning, however, at the same time treats with a certain dangerous affairs that man himself encounters contingently. These actions are responses to the contingent affairs that he wishes to escape or to minimize the dangerous affair and its method of the escape has an illogical and irrational disposition. Certainly, though these methods is unsuitable to a truth forms, but not prove its uneffectiveness in the man's life and death, his rise and fall, and his pains and pleasures. namely, everything of life-world. In short, the key point of divination is that human avoid or minimize the crises which he encounters or predicts. In order to treat my main topic on divination in the Zhou-yi i.e.. the book of change, I first of all will try to grasp general principle of divination and its meaning, and then will treat with its philosophical meaning through Carl G. Jung's 'principle of synchronicity' concept and John R. Searle's 'causal explanation' concept. Finally, I will argue that Yi-xiang(易象) i.e. a gotten symbol through divination of Zhou-yi is the very motive that subjective things be emphasized in process of Zhan-duan(占斷), i.e. a judgement for the gotten result through the divination, and there by argue that we determine the route that we escape from the dangerous situation depending on the symbol gotten through divination.