힐링(healing)과 동양 수양론

초록

Recently in our society, the public interest in 'healing' is higher than ever before. It could be seen as a sign that Korean society is suffering from serious mental tension and pain to that extent. As the humanistic interest in 'healing' gets higher, its harmful side effects becomes even severer. The fever of 'healing', which was started without sufficient theoretical discussions in the academic circle, is making humanities into something like pseudo-therapy. Various kinds of treatments putting signs of philosophy and literature is making the long-awaited humanistic interest ridiculous. While the crisis of humanities caused from the indifference to academic engagement is a problem, humanities riding the 'healing' wave without fundamental introspection should be a target of reflection. This study will examine what the meaning of Oriental Philosophy is in the age of 'healing'. The Oriental Philosophies including Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, have investigated the human as the main subject, and the Oriental self-cultivation has been a core concern. Therefore, they are expected to supply with some clues which can cure the mental crisis of our society. The Oriental self-cultivation has theoretical relations with the whole fields of philosophical therapy, and provides meaningful theories for the development of the specific treatment models. Especially, Confucianism, the main theory of the our traditional culture, has had a significant influence on Koreans' emotions and consciousness. That is the reason the Oriental self-cultivation, which has the basis on morality and mainly search the meaning of the human existence and its ways to practice, is so meaningful in the development of the specific treatment models. The main causes of the any problems in our modern society, which originated from the 'disease of mind', are the loss of the meaning of the life and the scarcity of the autoregulation ability. Oriental medical tradition reminds people of the healing instinct in themselves, and gives priority to the synthetic understanding of both human and nature over the symptomatic treatment of diseases. This aspect offers an important clue to the development of the alternative therapy in our present society. 'The model of self-cultivation' in this study, is based on the theory of Oriental self-cultivation, and aims at searching for the ways to cure the 'disease of mind' of our society.

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