한국의 자생적 근대성과 종교 - 하늘-이단-지도의 앎

Abstract

Almost all the discourses regarding the possibility of native modernity in Korea may be merely a map. But map is not territory. For there might be lots of gaps or incongruities between a map and an actual topography. Further, map is not territory either in other meaning. A map differs from the territory which dominates as well as fixes everything with only one premise or entrance. For it has a great variety of entrances and is opened at every direction. Hence we are allowed to imagine not only the heretical desire but also the plateau of Hanul(天, heaven). First of all, this paper will examine a clue to the possibility of native modernity in Korea by reviewing the historical meaning of Hwaseiong(華城) in Suwon(水原) and especially a dialogue between Jeong Yak-yong(丁若鏞,1762-1836), a famous Confucian thinker and practitioner of his time and King Jeongjo(正祖, 1776-1880). In the second place, the heretical desire of Korean Confucianism, Seohak(西學, Catholicism), Donghak(東學, Eastern Learning) in the late Chosun(朝鮮) Dynasty will be pursued. Thus while the heretical desire of the Korean Catholic was the one that longed for the transcendental, personified Hanul(天主) "as a greater system," the orthodox school of Korean Confucianism had a strong tendency to defense the immanent, metaphysical, and moral Hanul(天理). On the contrary, people in general wanted the very Hanul which could be touched at hand. As a conclusion, this paper still sees prospect of the native modernity in the future by the anamnesia for the universal Hanul, on which all of them among Korean Confucianism, Seohak, and Donghak so commonly rested.