철학은 인문학인가?: 철학, 과학의 본래적 이름 - 융복합 교육으로서 철학교육

Abstract

Nowaday philosophy is classified as one of humanities. And they say that philosophy is situated in the center of so called crisis of humanities. I think we should ask now if philosophy may be regarded just as a sort of humanities. Because we can make sure easily that philosophy is the root of natural science, as historical development of philosophy is examined. Therefore the contemporary classifying of philosophy comes from a misunderstanding of philosophy. Recently ‘interdisciplinarity’ became an important topic as a trend in academic society. This is a concept pursuing for integrated knowledge or study between humanities and natural science. At this moment we have to remember that interdisciplinary developments and exchanges of diverse studies were achieved in every golden age of philosophy. Even if ‘interdisciplinarity’ is emphasized, people tend to pay no attention to the importance of philosophy. And they are apt to consider the conception ‘interdisciplinarity’ as a new method for studying. I think that this academic trend is no better than searching for one’s identity without knowing one’s origin. Philosophy means ‘human intellectual activity of seeking true knowledge of human and world’. Accordingly this paper aims to ascertain that philosophy includes not only humanistic but also natural scientific characteristic, and that successful education of philosophy is nothing but actual method of interdisciplinary education.