반지성주의와 음모론
Anti-intellectualism and Conspiracy Theory
- 발행
- 2022
- 소속·발행
- 서울대학교
- 출처
- 국내 KCI
- 원문등록
- 2022-06-17
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개념
키워드
반지성주의, 음모론, 음모론적 인간형, 판단 중지, 집단지성, 양방향으로 말하기, Anti-intellectualism, conspiracy theory, Homo conspirans, epoche, collective intelligence, in utramque partem dicere
초록
This paper tries to demonstrate the relationship of anti- intellectualism with conspiracy theory. For this, firstly, the paper provides a critical reading of the story of Polyphemus in Homer’s Odyssey to show that anti-intellectualism is rooted on the one- eyed cognition that is confined by a certain idea, belief, experience, memory, information, interest, and ideology. The paper, then, attempts to read Cicero’s The First Speech against Caitline from the viewpoint of conspiracy theory for demonstrating that it is supported and even authorized strongly by the theory of justice that reinforces the faction theory. To this, the paper adds another critical reading of Euripides’ Heracles for showing the danger of fake news that is strongly tangled with conspiracy theory. These critical readings come to the confessing that it is not easy to reject the human identity of “homo conspirans”. The paper, however, strives to suggest how to fight against the anti-intellectualism endorsed by conspiracy theory, providing the philosophical training of suspension of all action and all opinion (epoche) and the rhetorical way of arguing both sides(in utramque partem dicere). On the basis of this, the p