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Study on the View of Life and Death of Jeungsan’s Thought

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2021, (36), pp.325~347
  • DOI : 10.33639/ptc.2021..36.015
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : May 16, 2021
  • Accepted : June 30, 2021
  • Published : June 30, 2021

Yeon,YeongHuem 1 Yeongjoo Kim 1

1대진대학교

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ABSTRACT

Humans are not eternal beings. As long as they live in a physical body, they are bound to face death. This is why the death is something humans fear most and wish to overcome. There have been a lot of researches on death and imaginary stories of their life after death. No one can give the right answer to our death and the life after death. Those ideas and stories of death are told only by the living beings. It is impossible to know the truth about the world after death. Until now, the issue of death and afterlife has been discussed mainly in the area of religion and philosophy. Then, what meanings the religious and philosophical discussions of death give to us? The most common idea is that people should do good deeds and live a good life in this life. But this is also an idea of the living people for their own good. This study focuses on the view of life and death of Jeungsan’s Thought. When humans die, their souls go up to the heaven and stay there as gods while being served of Jesa(ancestral rites) by their living descendants. Then, after four generations, they become either spirits or immortals. This process after death gives a message from the position of the dead and tells us about how we should live our life.

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