현대소설에 나타난 윤리적 실천과 생태윤리학 연구 - 1970년대를 중심으로

Abstract

<Abstract> Study on Ethical Practice and Eco-ethics Shown in Modern Novels - Centered on the 1970s - Lee, Pyeong-jeon (Sewon University) In this writing, while limits of advanced researches are examined, eco-ethical aspects which are shown in novels in the 1970s are explained based on the theory of Hans Jonas. To assert responsibility for life, he keenly looked into bioethical weak points of traditional ethics. To propose the measures, he searches for grounds of eco-ethical ontology of “responsibility for the present and future of life”. In works of main authors in the 1970s such as Yoon Heung-gil, Jo Se-hee, Han Seung-won, and Kim Won-il, eco-ethical responses can be found out. In these works, diverse variations of ethical introspection centered on relationship between humans and nature generally appear. First, Yoon Heung-gil repeats ethical introspection in order to solve the reality of Korean division as the best solution task of Korean people which is still effective, a lot of contradictions derived from the division, overall problems caused from the course of industrialization in the 1970s, and problems of power existing in our daily life. Kim Won-il concretely agonizes over things like “problems of reality are just problems of me and all of us,” and “how should I live?” while he expresses the past of his childhood and the future society simultaneously without burying his head in the sand or being indulged in the transcendental world. So, in these points, eco-ethical aspects can be seen. Along with them, A Small Ball Shot up by a Dwarf of Jo Se-hee sends a warning message against ills of industrial cities and damage to life values and is varied through diverse styles and metaphors. It is noticeable in that these works show ethical recognition not only targeting just humans or relations between humans but also the whole dimension of existence including ecosystems. The fact that the eco-ethical viewpoint of Jonas is important is that meanings of life phenomena are deeply understood through metaphysical philosophical exploration without simply stopping in biological exploration into the life phenomena. It provides philosophical routes which are important in discussing problems of literature, environment, and ecosystem sin the 1970s when ill sand discrepancies which were taken by excessive growth ideology came to the foreasrealcrisisafterdrastically processed industrialization and urbanization planning passed.