동·서양 문화에 나타난 조화의 의미 - 한국문화의 조화를 중심으로 - = The Meaning of Harmony in Eastern · Western Culture - Focused on Harmony of Korean Culture -

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

It is said that all existing races have their own original value needed in the world. The culture the ethnic races incarnated has also its original intrinsic value with its own universal and singular properties like all the ethnic races having their existing intrinsic values. We living in present should understand deliberately the culture and its properties - universal and singular properties- of the culture. We should also seek for possibility of harmony as well as confirm the similarity and the difference of the eastern and western cultures
But the intention of dividing culture into the eastern and western cultures has unavoidably `the fallacy of misplaced concreteness` coming from dividing all objects with the oppositive dichotomy. In addition it is difficult to define the culture because it changes incessantly and takes many different shapes regardless of time and space. So we should be rid of the identity and dichotomy of thought, and then consider the eastern and western cultures with the attitude of object-centered way of thinking instead of human-centered way of thinking, vector way of thinking instead of scalar way of thinking. This will lead us to evaluate the culture properly with correct understanding the harmony of culture.