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Friendship and Hospitality as the requirements for establishing identity on unification of North and South Koreas - focusing on Derrida and Levinas -

  • The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
  • Abbr : 기사윤
  • 2020, (47), pp.171-201
  • DOI : 10.21050/CSE.2020.47.06
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology
  • Received : June 30, 2020
  • Accepted : August 18, 2020
  • Published : August 31, 2020

sang-woo SHIM 1

1한국기술교육대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study explores the identity of the unified Korean Peninsula, focusing on friendship, a symbol of hospitality. Until the end of the 80s, unification was discussed only at the political level. Since then, as the Cold War system collapsed, the core of the unification debate has quickly shifted from a political level to an economic perspective. In this process, introspection on human metaphysical desires, friendship and hospitality, was very limited. Unification discussions without ethical introspection will eventually make us overlook the essential meaning of love and justice. Therefore, unification must be reconstructed in terms of ‘hospitality and friendship’ as the basis of love and justice. Levinas and Derrida are representative thinkers of the 20th century who have deepened the discussion of friendship (philia) and hospitality (hospitium). I would like to secure the justification for unification by borrowing their reasons.

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