‘동질윤리’를 넘어 ‘차이윤리’로 (The Different Ethics beyond the Homogeneous Ethics)

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초록

지난 2007년 통계에 의하면 우리나라는 외국인 100만 명 시대에 진입하였다. 이제 우리 사회는 백의민족, 단일민족, 단일문화, 순혈주의 등의 동질성만을 강조하던 시대는 서서히 역사 속으로 사라지고 있다. 다인종, 다민족, 다문화, 다종교 등 여러 이질적인 요소들이 함께 어울리고 섞이고 경계가 무너지면서 온갖 종류의 새로운 잡종들을 탄생시키는 융합과 통섭(統攝, Consilience)의 시대이고, 인종, 문화, 학문, 기업, 기술, 음식 등 모든 영역에서 벽을 허물고 각각의 다름들이 균형과 조화를 이루면서 자신들의 다름들을 멋지게 연출하며 서로 소통하고 공존하는 새로운 글로벌 시대가 이미 개막되었다.
우리 사회의 이러한 급속한 변화는 모든 영역에 영향을 미치고 이에 상응하는 변화를 요구하고 있다. 이러한 변화의 요구에 따라 이미 각 분야에서 엄청난 변화가 진행되고 있다. 그러나 정작 모든 변화의 토대가 되어야 할 정신적 분야 - 의식과 윤리적 측면 - 에서는 상대적으로 그 변화의 속도가 너무나 더디다. 이러한 외적 물질적 변화와 내적 정신적 변화와의 차이가 우리 사회의 근본적 변화의 가장 큰 걸림돌이 되었다. 이 걸림돌을 제거하지 않고서는 궁극적인 도약은 불가능할 것이다.
본 논문에서는 새로운 의식과 윤리가 요구되어지는 글로벌 시대와 21세기 지식정보사회에서 아직도 통용되는 전통사회의 의식과 윤리가 낳는 문제들을 살펴보고, 이 시대와 사회가 요구하는 새로운 의식과 윤리가 구체적으로 어떠한 모습과 기능을 해야 하는지를 제시하고자 한다.

영어초록

According to the 2007 statistics, our country has entered into an era where the total number of foreigners in Korea has reached one million. Our society has historically emphasized homogeneity such as the white-clad folk, a single race, single culture, pure-bloodedism, etc. and those times are disappearing gradually. It is the times of harmony and consilience that a lot of heterogeneous elements such as a multiracial, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural society and multi religions are mixed and match together and also its boundary is collapsing and new hybrids are produced. Moreover, while pulling down walls in all scopes such as race, culture, education, company, technology, food, etc., new global times were already opened as each difference achieved balance, harmony, and understanding and could coexist with each other.
A wave of the new change, which is a struggle for survival in many fields of our society trying to fit the start of the new global times, already is rolling. However, the wave of these changes has confined itself to the response regarding an external situation change which is primarily related to survival. Namely, our society is not prepared to properly meet the coming new social relationship. For example, foreigners who lived in our country still meet inconveniences in their daily lives, the investment environment of foreign companies in our society has not been particularly improved, discrimination against foreign workers and human rights problems still exist. Moreover after Hines Ward, the temporary interest regarding children of mixed blood has already disappeared by power of pure-blooded ism and power of regionalism, kinship and school relationship. These local feelings cannot be destroyed yet in almost all scopes of our society such as politicians, all kinds of elections, a government official society, the work place and so on.
Also multi-cultural families have rapidly increased in agricultural villages through international marriages, but a great number of problems have occurred while preparation to welcome migration women and their children still hesitates at a process of trial and error. The United Nations Committee on elimination of Racial Discrimination urged in a statement that The Korean government must recognize the multi-ethnic character of contemporary Korean society and avoid the emphasis placed on the ethnic homogeneity of Korea. We who were born and grew up in this country and know it like the back of our hand do not exactly have a clear view of our problem.
Thus, our society still has the premodern way of thinking that people who combine together by homogeneity do not allow people who have a heterogeneous element to approach. There were few personal, material and cultural interchanges with outsiders in our past traditional society so people had to live only with their same class for a long time. In a society which emphasizes ethnic homogeneity, Homogeneous Ethics was formed by developing of the way of life, system, personal relationship, etc. However, now we can not live in an isolated society.
Economically our country which is not blessed with natural resources finds it difficult to exist without relationships between other countries while importing and exporting. Our country, which was an agricultural country, depends on importing now as food sources are not self-sufficient. These domestic and foreign situation changes required active opening and becoming a member of global times, and as a result, a revolutionary change which was not able to be seen in the past rapidly is proceeded in all fields.
In this way the newly invented society produced new key words such as fusion, harmony, cross breed, consilience, communication, coexistence, etc. As new key words exceeded those of homogeneous ethics of a classic society, a new ethics was required. Different ethics are appearing as new ethics meet in difference ways.
In this thesis, I present first how correlation between consciousness and ethics is changed according to degrees of a consciousness development, and mention stagnation of homogeneous ethics and problems of homogeneous ethics in changed societies. I also show an ontological foundation of different ethics as new ethics, and try to establish how we set up relation between homogeneous ethics and different ethics.

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