해방 후~1950년대 철학과의 설치·운영과 교양철학 강의

The Establishment and Management of the Department of Philosophy and General Philosophy Courses over the Period from 1945 to 1950s

This paper examines the processes of the establishment and management of the department of philosophy at Seoul National University, Yonhee (later Yonsei) University, and Korea University (SNU, YU, and KU, respectively, hereafter) over the period from 1945 to 1950s by investigating their faculty members, curriculum, and courses, as well as the textbooks. We find that most faculty members at the SNU were from the Keijo Imperial University (KIU, hereafter). While there were no professors of eastern philosophy on the faculty at the SNU and the YU, the KU had in its philosophy faculty professors of both eastern and western philosophy. The departments of philosophy were established at the three universities in 1946. At that time, the curriculum of the department at the KIU was adopted by the three universities, and fewer courses were offered in the area of eastern philosophy. Around 1955, the curriculum was reorganized and the number of courses was rapidly increased. It is noteworthy that ethics and education courses reentered the curriculum at the SNU while courses of readings and eastern philosophy entered the curriculum at the YU and the KU. Indeed, many courses of readings were offered at the YU, and the number of courses of eastern philosophy is almost same as the number of courses of western philosophy at the KU. Universities began to offer general philosophy courses as a requirement around the mid-1950s, and the relevant textbooks have been published since the late 1950s. The textbooks were mainly concerned with western philosophy. The textbook used by the SNU was written by professors at the SNU as well as professors at other universities, the book of the KU was written by scholars in the first generation of Liberation, and at the YU, the textbook included various classics of eastern and western philosophy as well as literature.