감각이란 무엇인가-동양철학적 접근 = The Concept of Sensation in Classical Chinese Thought

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

What was the concept of ``sensation`` in classical Chinese thought? Accordingly to the western traditions, the sensation is a passive function of aesthesis, a medium between the subject and the object. But the concept of aesthesis is not in accordance with the one in classical Chinese texts. First of all, the sensation is an active behavior of the parts of human body, the five sense-organs, which was the communicative channel between the inner-life and the outer-world. And the discourses of sensation has made up of not the theory of knowledge but the ch`i philosophical worldview. The contacts between our mind-heart and five senses gives rise to qing(feelings and desires) that was the flowing of ch`i in our body. For that reason, the discourses of sensation in classical Chinese texts must be related to the sphere of psychology and the theory of self-cultivation, not of epistemology.