This blog post examines the meaning of ancient Greek sculpture, which Hegel regarded as the consummation of artistic beauty, and explores the philosophical background of how the unity of content and form achieved this pinnacle of beauty.   Hegel’s theory of art belongs to typical philosophical aesthetics, despite containing rich and sophisticated statements on specific works, because...

This blog post examines in detail how high sea temperatures and ocean currents in the West Antarctic region concentrate warm water beneath small ice shelves, accelerating melting, and what this phenomenon signifies for ice shelf changes across the entire Antarctic.   The Antarctic continent holds an enormous amount of ice, enough to raise global sea levels by approximately 57 meters if it...

This blog post examines the criteria used under the Fair Trade Act to distinguish hard collusion from soft collusion, and why they require different levels of scrutiny regarding their restrictive effects on competition. This helps understand the core principles of market regulation.   The ‘unfair joint conduct’ under the Republic of Korea’s Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act...

This blog post examines how modern historiography has reproduced Western-centricism through the concepts of linear progress and a historicist conception of time, while exploring the possibility of a new historical consciousness where diverse civilizations and heterogeneous temporalities coexist.   Imperialism plundered not only the territories of colonies but also their cultures and minds...

This blog post examines how excessive submission to law undermines human freedom and autonomy, even amplifying guilt, focusing on Kant’s categorical imperative and Deleuze’s critique.   Within the Western intellectual tradition, law has long been understood as secondary to the good, or merely a means to resemble the good. Law was seen as a mere semblance of the good, revealed...

This blog post examines why Zhu Xi saw the mind as the source encompassing both character and emotions. We explore together the significance of his step-by-step analysis of the mind’s functions for moral cultivation and the perfection of character.   For Song Dynasty Confucian scholars who valued the perfection of character and moral practice, the mind (心) was the most fundamental...

This blog post examines the natural worldview in Korean creation myths and explores how it aligns with the theory of evolution established in the West. It looks at how the worldview in early myths presupposed gradual change and harmony.   The theory of evolution, developed by Charles Robert Darwin and numerous scientists, explains the diversity and complexity of existing life forms. Its core...

This blog post explores the positive possibilities brought by advances in biotechnology, while also delving deeply into the risks uncontrolled mutations could pose to humanity’s future.   On March 14, 2018, the brilliant physicist Stephen Hawking passed away. Though he was a cosmologist, he also made numerous predictions about humanity’s future. Among them, his warnings about the...

This blog post explains why decontamination technology is considered the most critical step in the decommissioning process of aging nuclear power plants. It examines the principles of radiation removal and the technical challenges involved, outlining the essential conditions for safe decommissioning.   On June 19, 2017, Unit 1 of the Kori Nuclear Power Plant in South Korea permanently ceased...

This blog post examines how the trade-off theory and the pecking order theory interpret corporate size and growth potential differently, providing a balanced understanding of the core principles governing debt ratio decisions.   The Modigliani-Miller theory, often expressed as the proposition that capital structure is irrelevant to firm value, is a capital structure theory based on the...