선진(先秦) 유학에서 ‘윤리적 존재(ethical being)로서 개인’에 관한 일고찰 (The Concept of the Individual as an Ethical Being in Early Confucian Philosophy)

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초록

본 논문은 선진(先秦) 유학의 주요 문헌에 나타난 ‘개인(individual)’의 개념에 대한 기초적 탐색이다. ‘개인’에 관해 어떤 개념 정의를 사용하여 어떤 텍스트를 중심으로 접근하는가에 따라 다양한 고찰이 가능하지만, 본 논문에서는 푸코 철학에서 제시된 ‘윤리적 존재’로서 개인에 초점을 맞추었다. 선진 유학의 주요 문헌에 나타난 ‘개인’의 개념에서 본 논문이 주목하는 바는 ‘자기 실천(practice of the self)을 통한 자기 형성(self-formation)’이다. 『論語』, 『孟子』, 『荀子』에 나타난 자기 형성의 주체로서 개인은 자신을 끊임없이 성찰하고 자신의 행동을 개선함으로써 자기 형성 과정을 책임지는 ‘윤리적 존재’다.

영어초록

This study explores the concept of the “individual” as found in major works related to ancient Confucian philosophy. Any debate over the merits of the concepts of modern and post-modern philosophy must inevitably include the individual. This concept also plays a central role in other debates, including those related to the notions of Asian values and an East Asian Community. The attachment of any true significance to this massive undertaking is predicated on preliminary attempts to conceptualize the “individual” reflected in the various contexts of Asian philosophy that constitute the foundation of the myriad of thoughts found in East Asian society. Based on this particular approach to the matter, this study analyzes the “individual” as exhibited in the early Confucian philosophical works that formed the foundation of traditional East Asian thought. This study pays particularly close attention to the concepts of the individual found in the Confucian Analects, from which the precursive notions that constitute the main concepts of Chinese and East Asian philosophy flow. Special attention is paid to “self-construction achieved through practicing the self.” More to the point, based on bibliographies of early Confucian philosophy such as Mencius and Xunzi, this study seeks to deduce the implications of the definition of the concept of the “individual” as a “self-construction achieved through practicing the self.”

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