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Discussion on “Characteristics and Current state of East-Asian Shaman Culture”
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Manage No DI00001231 Country Republic of Korea Author Na Kyung Soo (Professor Department of Korean Education, Chonnam National University) Published Year 2013 Language English Copyright 
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| Description | Renaissance (rebirth) does not occur just once in human history, but may manifest in any era. Renaissance resembles the resurrection principle that starts with death and ends with revival. The educated used to say “let’s return to Greece” during the Renaissance, hoping to revive the dead Greece. What should we say if we re-attempt the Renaissance movement today? Not to mention the already generalized animal ethics, it is not far from plant ethics being taught in universities. If we agree on the first Renaissance being the Christian doctrine that defines the Earth being the center of the universe where human, the sole legitimate creation of the one and only God, live, from where should we begin the search for the system of original thought, in the midst of the traditional philosophy; only human possess souls facing biological resistance which claims animals, or even plants have souls? As the thoughts in the beginning era had been overcome through the Renaissance, we are now in the need of second Renaissance to overcome the life philosophy, which originated in BC400-500, of east and west. In other words, like the example of one returning to the previous era, Greece, to overcome the theology originated in the beginning era, we should worry about the search-point for a model that would help us to overcome the philosophy of BC5-6, where the life philosophy originated. What if, plants-have-souls philosophy develops to a fact that states even non-living have souls, where we should find the reference model? If such situation becomes the reality by any chance, it would be reasonable to take Shamanism as one of our cards. | ||
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