분류의 다양성과 원리: 지식의 탄생을중심으로

초록

Any classification of objects in the world is necessarily linked to thebirth of its accompanied knowledge. We investigate diverse classifyingefforts in Eastern and Western thoughts, and argue that behind theconfusing diversity of alternating classification systems, we can recognizecertain principles which guided the entire classification efforts. We alsotry to show that the principles are closely related to the birth ofspecific kinds of knowledge. In order to achieve this, we look at threeareas of knowledge: current natural sciences, western human sciencesand Korean Confucianism in Chosun period. First, we examine whether‘natural kinds’ concept is adequate to explain the practice of currentnatural scientific research. Second, we analyze how western hujmanscience had been established through ‘ontological re-articulation’ of itsobjects. Lastly, we discuss how the transition from Sung Confucianisticclassification to ‘empirical’ classification was achieved in the taxonomictexts of Chosun period. We endeavored to illustrate how some guidingideas or principles had shaped the resulting classification systems ineach case.

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