본문 바로가기
  • Home

An Analysis of Vitality Assets as a Condition for Social Ingenuity: Centering on a Super-Aged Society

  • The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
  • Abbr : 기사윤
  • 2025, (61), pp.47~76
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology
  • Received : March 17, 2025
  • Accepted : April 12, 2025
  • Published : April 30, 2025

Lee, Sang-Hoon 1

1한남대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to analyze and discuss ‘social ingenuity’ restoring and developing personal and human attributes in an era of rising technological ingenuity and the dominance of impersonal values, which can be exemplified by developments in medicine, increased life expectancy, advancement of AI, job losses, surplus humanity, and a crisis of human identity. Bonds and friendship can help to enhance and support the sustainability of a super-aged society with increased life expectancy brought about by technological ingenuity. They prove to be vitality assets key to a good life that lead to happiness, achievement, motivation, and a positive mindset, and play various roles in cultivating social ingenuity to promote personal contentment and community prosperity. Therefore, in order to focus on exploring bonds and friendship, this study analyzes concepts such as posse, big ideas crowd, regenerative community, and others. The type of humanity that reveals these relational individuals and bonds of community does not rest on impersonal aspects but rather personal implications. Their comparison and analysis clarify not only how we can address role loss, surplus humans, a crisis of human identity, generational conflict, and demographic cliff, but also what is required in building vitality assets and social ingenuity to achieve individual happiness and community prosperity in a super-aged society.

Citation status

* References for papers published after 2023 are currently being built.

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