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Life and Modernity ―Focusing on the Life School of Wonju

  • Religions of Korea
  • 2019, 45(), pp.71~86
  • Publisher : The Research Center of Religions
  • Research Area : Humanities > Religious Studies
  • Received : January 14, 2019
  • Accepted : February 2, 2019
  • Published : February 15, 2019

Jo Sunghwan 1

1원광대학교 원불교사상연구원

Candidate

ABSTRACT

Yun No-bin, Kim Ji-ha and Chang Il-sun, taking Wonju as their base, reinterpreted Donghak (Eastern Learning) in a modern way from the perspective of focusing on life itself and sought to overcome the deleterious effects brought about by Western modernity. In that sense they can be referred to as the “Life School of Wonju.” Among them Yun Nobin uncovered messages of liberation in the incantations of Donghak, and reinterpreted these incantations as a kind of liberation philosophy to release people from oppression. Kim Jiha, who was influenced by Yun No-bin, reformulated the theories on Donghak by Yun No-bin into a kind of the Great Opening (kaebyŏk) movement and considered the life movement to share many similarities with Donghak by applying the theories on Donghak by Yun No-bin to popular movements in the Third World. While these two persons’ interpretations about the Donghak mainly focused on the “Revolution of Human-is-Heaven” as human liberation, Chang Il-sun advanced to the thought of Respect to Things of Haewol (Choi Si-hyeong) as a way to value all living beings and even things. The reason why he started the Hansallim (one great making-living) movement lies in this. In that the Hansallim movement pursued co-existence not only with human beings but also with nature, it can be also thought of as the ‘holistic life movement’ that is based on the holistic nature of life, and this holistic nature is in fact the ‘new modernity.’

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