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A Comparative Study of Herman Cohen and Dietrich Bonoeffer: A Suggestion of Moral Responsibility to Korean Society

  • The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
  • Abbr : 기사윤
  • 2015, (33), pp.235-281
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology

Jung Hwan,Lee 1

1한세대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study is a preliminary investigation of the ethics of Hermann Cohen and Dietrich Bonhoeffer in terms of human behavior for the moral principles of Korean society. On the one hand, Cohen applies the scientific or transcendental philosophical method to ethics. The ethical concept of self-consciousness is here seen mainly in the context of the theme of autonomy, for it is only by self-legislation that the moral being can arrive at consciousness of himself. Cohen describes that Humanity is the ethically correlated to God, the highest self-consciousness that reason can project. Also, humanity gives the state its ideal for constitutional and international law. On the other hand, Bonhoeffer claims that the problem of subjectivity in philosophy of transcendental Idealism is overcome by recognizing the presence of Christ outside of human reason. Faith supposes an object outside of itself, but faith is a mode of being in the church. The concept of Christian ethical realism emphasizes the reality of being in Christ, which requires the responsibility of the church and believers for others in the world. Bonhoeffer addresses “this-worldliness”, “church exiting for others” thematically because the real theme is the claim of witnessing the presence of Jesus Christ in the present.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.