세여 진교훈의 학문세계와 의철학적 관심

Abstract

This paper focuses on the academic world and the interest in the philosophy of medicine of Professor Kyo-Hun Chin. First, this researcher treats the journey and vocation of learning, and then the overview of the academic world and anthropological interest in the four phases of life, birth, aging, disease, and death. Prof. Chin lived a journey of learning through encounters and practiced learning according to social duties and aspects of life. The academic world of Prof. Chin pursues the vocation of the unity of knowing and doing and inclines to the holistic thinking of ‘consensus sapientiae’ and ‘coincidentia oppositorum.’ Looking into the academic world of Prof. Chin confirms that his interest in the philosophy of medicine started from a very early age and deepened continuously. Prof. Chin had pursued the ‘way of humanity’ throughout all his life and his 'philosophical anthropology' and ‘medical anthropology’ share the problem of suffering generated from phases of life through birth, aging, disease, and death. The process of life and death are natural events. The issue of illness is an important event encountered while walking on the path of humanity. Through the way of life and mystery, one leads to understanding the existential life and the abyss of human beings. Just as personal conversations are needed to deal with problems of disease in patient-doctor relationships, continuous encounters and conversations are needed between medicine and philosophy.