• 논리연구
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.127-170
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• 2008

This paper aims to present solutions to three intriguing puzzles on causation that Benardete presents by considering the results of infinite series of telescoping events. The main conceptual tool used in the solutions is the notion of collective causation, what many events cause collectively. It is straightforward to apply the notion to resolve two of the three puzzles. It does not seem as straightforward to apply it to the other puzzle. After some preliminary clarifications of the situation that Benardete describes to present the puzzle, however, we can apply the notion to resolve it as well.

• 논리연구
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.17-43
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• 2013

최근에 이병욱 교수는 집단인과개념을 이용함으로써 선행결과역설에 대한 새로운 해결방식을 제시하고자 했다. 이 논문에서 필자는 이병욱 교수의 해결방식이 우리 인과개념에 대한 지평을 확장시켜 주는 기여를 하지만 선행결과역설에 대한 만족스런 해결이 되지 못함을 보이고자 한다. 필자는 우선 선행결과역설에 우리가 직면하고 있는 수수께끼의 두 가지 원천을 밝히고, 이 역설을 해결하기 위해 반드시 만족시켜야 할 두 가지 조건을 제시할 것이다. 그리고 이병욱 교수의 해결방식은 그 두 가지 조건을 동시에 충족시킬 수 없음을 논증할 것이다.

• 대한한의학원전학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.117-142
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• 2011

This paper is about the emotional factors in Chiljeongsang(七情傷). To specify the collective term into specific categories, an examination of the meaning of emotion of the East and West was primarily undertaken. The importance of emotion lies in the fact that it provides a link between the individual and the outside world. Emotion was perceived as reflections of the human nature and mental activity by philosophers and psychiatrists throughout history. In the views of psychologists, the focus was on not emotion itself, but rather the emotional experience in human, and its psychological and physiological mechanism. In Traditional Medicine, problematic emotion is called Chiljeong(七情). The term Chiljeongsang(七情傷), which is a compound word of 'Chiljeong(七情)' and 'Sang(傷)' meaning 'damage', is used in referring to illness related to unhealthy emotions. It is used to describe illness caused by Chiljeong(七情) and mental disorders that result in emotional symptoms. It also refers to illness where Chiljeong(七情) plays a role in creating a more direct cause of illness in the larger pathogenic process. In the contents of Chiljeongsang(七情傷) in Traditional Medicine, emotion as causation of Gi(氣) disorder could be found the most, while explanation on the psychological process related to the creation of Chiljeong(七情) was insufficient. This tendency is related to the philosophical basis of Traditional Medicine. Out of the two patterns suggested, the mind-based Chiljeongsang(七情傷) pattern includes the psychological aspects of damage, in which key focus is on the cause that arouses problematic emotion, its process and the meaning this emotion entails. To explain this, concepts from psychiatry, especially Jung's theory on neurosis was adopted. In treating a Chiljeongsang(七情傷) patient, mere knowledge of the physiological changes of the body in terms of Gi(氣) is insufficient. This is because mental factors play a large role in Chiljeongsang(七情傷), and the more a condition is 'mental', the more complex it becomes and the more it influences life as whole. Therefore, the doctor must approach the patient with not only medical knowledge, but also overall knowledge on all aspects of human life.