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Exploration about the possibility of Harmony between Yoo Young-Mo’s Subjectivity and Levinas’ Otherness

  • The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
  • Abbr : 기사윤
  • 2021, (51), pp.279-312
  • DOI : 10.21050/CSE.2021.51.09
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology
  • Received : November 11, 2021
  • Accepted : December 13, 2021
  • Published : December 31, 2021

sang-woo SHIM 1

1강남대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This study explores the possibility of communication between the subject philosophy and the other philosophy by meeting Yoo Young-Mo and Emmanuel Levinas. These two thinkers are representative figures who tried to overcome the national difficulties and existential matters with the spirit of Eastern and Western harmony. Despite this commonality, the orientation of reasons of these two thinkers was very different. While Yoo Young-Mo insisted on establishing a subject to overcome colonialism and partisanship after passing through the Japanese colonial era, Levinas argued for the dissolution of the subject, exposing the Western subject philosophy produces violence that excludes others in the process of pursuing identity. The path of the two thinkers who insisted on “establishing the subject” and “deconstructing the subject” is enough to view modern society critically. As such, the work that first compares and analyzes the perspectives of the two thinkers contrasting with each other over the issue of subjectivity will be a sufficiently meaningful study. However, these two thinkers’ efforts to find true peace have unique characteristics. Their ideas were created by harmonizing Eastern and Western views, philosophy, and religion. This study will also attempt a creative meeting between the subject philosophy and the other philosophy in harmony.

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