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    The Educational Significance of Questions on the Meaning and Value of Life: Drawing Upon Blumenberg's View on Western Philosophy

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    ๋ณธ ๋…ผ๋ฌธ์€ ํ˜„๋Œ€ ์‚ฌํšŒ์™€ ํ•™๊ต ๊ต์œก์—์„œ ์‚ถ์˜ ์˜๋ฏธ์™€ ๊ฐ€์น˜์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ์ ์ฐจ ์ฃผ๋ณ€ํ™” ๋˜์–ด ์˜จ ํ˜„์ƒ์„ ๋ฌธ์ œ ์‚ฌํƒœ๋กœ ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ด ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚  ๊ต์œก์ ์œผ๋กœ ์˜๋ฏธ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ์–ด์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์— ๋Œ€ํ•˜์—ฌ ํƒ์ƒ‰ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•˜์—ฌ ์‚ถ์˜ ์˜๋ฏธ์™€ ๊ฐ€์น˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ์‹ค์กด์  ํ–‰๋ณต์˜ ๊ฐœ๋…์„ ๋งค๊ฐœ๋กœ ์ง„๋ฆฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ด๋ก ์  ์ถ”๊ตฌ์™€ ๋ฐ€์ ‘ํ•œ ๊ด€๋ จ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์—ฌ๊ฒผ๋˜ ๊ณ ๋Œ€ ํฌ๋ž ์ฒ ํ•™ ์ด๋ž˜๋กœ ์„œ๊ตฌ์˜ ์ฒ ํ•™์  ์ „ํ†ต ์†์—์„œ ์ด ๋‘˜์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ์–ด์กŒ๋Š”์ง€, ํŠนํžˆ ๊ทผ๋Œ€์˜ ๊ณผํ•™์  ์„ธ๊ณ„๊ด€์— ์˜ํ•ด ์ด ๊ด€๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋˜์–ด ์™”๋Š”์ง€๋ฅผ ์ž˜ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” Blumenberg์˜ ์„œ๊ตฌ ์ฒ ํ•™์‚ฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ด€์ ์„ ์†Œ๊ฐœํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ด ๊ด€์ ์€ ์‚ถ์˜ ์˜๋ฏธ์™€ ๊ฐ€์น˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์‹ค์กด์  ์—ผ๋ ค๋‚˜ ๊ฐˆ๋ง๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ์‹œ์ผœ ์ดํ•ดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์•ˆ๋ชฉ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ณ , ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚  ์ง€์‹์˜ ํ™์ˆ˜ ์†์—์„œ ๋ฐฉํ™ฉํ•˜๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์•„์ด๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ง€์‹ ๊ต์œก์ด๋‚˜ ๋„๋• ๊ต์œก์„ ํ†ตํ•œ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ๊ต์œก๊ณผ๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ, ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ ‘๊ทผ์˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ๊ต์œก์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์„ ํƒ์ƒ‰์ผ€ ํ•œ๋‹ค. The purpose of this paper is to examine what the questions on the meaning and value of life can mean to us today and to explore the ways in which they can be meaningfully raised again for our youngsters. While the questions used to be taken as fundamental to the pursuit of the good life in the old days, they tend to look irrelevant and remote to us in pursuing the good life as we conceive it today. Thus, it seems pivotal to examine what the nature of those questions used to be and why and how these questions have been trivialized in both the modern life and modern schooling. The main part of the paper focuses on Blumenberg's account of how each tradition in the history of the western philosophy since the ancient Greek has responded to their existential anxiety with the theoretical pursuit of truth. Thus, Blumenberg helps us formulate the questions on the meaning and value of life in terms of its relation to our theoretical pursuit of truth for our existential happiness. Throughout the western tradition until it met the modern world, it was taken for granted that the theoretical pursuit of truth is supposed to bring about our existential happiness. And the questions on the meaning and value of life as a matter of existential fulfillment played the central role in shaping the way people understood the world and oriented their lives in this world. But, Blumenberg also explicates how the modern world of science broke off with this long tradition and changed the nature of the relation between theory and our existential happiness when it began to celebrate human control over nature and the world for human purposes. In the modern world, the theoretical pursuit is supposed to make us successful in controlling the nature, rather than making us existentially happy by being in harmony with nature. Thus, the modern condition of life based on scientific world view makes the questions on the meaning and value of life unavailable to us in the way the premodern world used to allow But the problem of our existential anxiety still remains as long as we are destined to face death and human finitude. Thus, the questions on the meaning and value of life needs to be raised in education in such a way for our students as to be able to deal with their existential anxiety in an educationally more productive and meaningful ways. Here it would be critical to lead them to face their existential contingency as well as epistemological contingency with the acknowledgement of their self-limitation and finitude

    An Exploratory Inquiry on the Educational Value of the Humanistic Education for the Future Education

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    ๋ณธ ๋…ผ๋ฌธ์€ ์‚ฌํšŒ๊ณตํ•™์  ์ ‘๊ทผ์˜ ๊ธฐ์กด ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๊ต์œก๋‹ด๋ก ์„ ๋ณด์™„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Œ€์•ˆ์œผ๋กœ์„œ ์ธ๋ฌธ์  ๊ต์œก์ด ๊ฐ€์ง„ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๊ฐ€ ์น˜์˜ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์„ ์‹คํ—˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ํƒ์ƒ‰ํ•œ ์‹œ๋ก ์ด๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ, ๋จผ์ € ๊ทผ๋Œ€ (ํ•™๊ต)๊ต์œก์ด ๊ฐ€์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์„ธ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ์  ์ธ ๊ต์œก์˜ ๊ฐœ๋…- ์ฆ‰, ์‚ฌํšŒํ™”, ํ•™๋ฌธ ํƒ๊ตฌ, ์ž์•„ ์„ฑ์žฅ-์„ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ๊ต์œก๊ณผ์˜ ๊ด€๋ จ ์†์—์„œ ๋น„ํŒ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ, ๊ธฐ์กด ๊ต์œก์˜ ๊ฐœ๋…๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๊ต์œก๋‹ด๋ก ์ด ๋งŒ๋‚  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ ‘์ ์„ ์ฐพ์•„๋ณธ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ํ† ๋Œ€๋กœ ํ•˜์—ฌ, ๊ต์œก์˜ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ์ธ๋ฌธํ•™๊ณผ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ต์œก์„ ํ†ตํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์  ์†Œ์–‘์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ˜ ์ธ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ธธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด๋Š” ๋ฐ์„œ ์ฐพ์•„๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•œ ๋ˆ„์Šค๋ฐ”์›€(M. C. Nussbaum)์˜ ์ธ๋ฌธ๊ต์–‘๊ต์œก๋ก ์„ ์ธ๋ฌธ์  ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๊ต์œก๋‹ด๋ก ์˜ ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋กœ์„œ ๋ถ„์„ํ•ด ๋ณธ๋‹ค. ๋” ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€, ๋ˆ„์Šค๋ฐ”์›€์˜ ๋…ผ์˜ ๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ์ƒ์  ๊ทผ๊ฑฐ๋กœ ์‚ผ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์•„๋ฆฌ์Šคํ† ํ…”๋ ˆ์Šค(Aristotle) ์œค๋ฆฌํ•™์˜ ๋…ผ์˜๋ฅผ ํ† ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ธ๋ฌธ๊ต์–‘๊ต์œก๋ก ์ด ์ง€ํ–ฅํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€ ์น˜์™€ ๊ทธ ์ •๋‹นํ™” ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ, ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๊ต์œก๋‹ด๋ก ์ด ์ œ์•ˆํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰๊ณผ ์ธ๋ฌธ์  ์ธ๊ฐ„์ƒ์ด ์ผ์น˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์ง€์ ์„ ํ™•์ธํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ, ๊ต์œก์˜ ์ธ๋ฌธ์„ฑ์ด ํšŒ๋ณต๋˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ๊ต์ˆ˜-ํ•™์Šต ํ™œ๋™ ์ž์ฒด์—์„œ ์ƒ์„ฑ๋˜๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ์  ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด ๋˜์‚ด์•„๋‚˜์•ผ ํ•จ์„ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ , ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํšŒ๋ณต์ด ๊ฐ€์ง„ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ํƒ์ƒ‰ํ•œ๋‹ค. This paper is an exploratory work for a model of humanistic approach as a complementary alternative to the dominant educational discourse of the social engineering model for the future education. We first examine in relation to "the future education" the three distinctive concepts of education that have dominated the way we think of education: socialization, academic pursuit and self-development. This leads us into a need to find a new way of conceiving education which can connect these three concepts in a new way. Then we introduce as an example of this new way of conceiving education, Martha Nussbaum's idea of the humanistic education for the future education which aims at the fostering of democratic citizens. Finally we further develop and sketch out the characteristics of uniquely humanistic mode of thinking, described as "phronesis" by Nussbaum, which can be cultivated through the specific manner of teaching-and-learning in the education of humanity. This is an educational approach for the future education that can still keep the intrinsic value of education and educational experiences fresh while accommodating the various social and economic demands from the future society
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