Philosophy has ever been approached by many professional intellectuals in the long history of the world. It has also played a leading part in the arena of intelligent competitions since it began. In contemporary societies, however, such a role seems to be lesser played; not because of its limit without, but because of its own within. Philosophy has been keeping its own tradition by showing the same approach to the problems: mainly through books which are written. Nowadays, many different cultures and styles of life coexist so that we need to have the proper, various points of view to understand them as indeed. According to Wittgenstein, there are so many language-games in the world, just as many tools in a toolbox. Each tool has its own role and function; every game has its own rule for players to follow, and this rule does not apply to that one so that what this rule means is not the same as that one does. He says that there is anything in common between this and that, except saying that it must be something different between the two. This methodology is accepted in this essay to explain further task. This is the later Wittgensteinean point of view. Philosophy has been in this essay developed from many different fields; and the writer seeks to show that in different ways philosophy has been put forward, and understood: books, discussions, dramas, movies, advertisements, novels, musics, paintings, and anything else where it has been differently given. The writer challenges here to explain and interpret philosophical meanings from such various points of view, according to its own contexts, very much articulately. By doing so, he believes that he would pinpoint its proper essence as necessary.

Philosophy has ever been approached by many professional intellectuals in the long history of the world. It has also played a leading part in the arena of intelligent competitions since it began. In contemporary societies, however, such a role seems to be lesser played; not because of its limit without, but because of its own within. Philosophy has been keeping its own tradition by showing the same approach to the problems: mainly through books which are written. Nowadays, many different cultures and styles of life coexist so that we need to have the proper, various points of view to understand them as indeed. According to Wittgenstein, there are so many language-games in the world, just as many tools in a toolbox. Each tool has its own role and function; every game has its own rule for players to follow, and this rule does not apply to that one so that what this rule means is not the same as that one does. He says that there is anything in common between this and that, except saying that it must be something different between the two. This methodology is accepted in this essay to explain further task. This is the later Wittgensteinean point of view. Philosophy has been in this essay developed from many different fields; and the writer seeks to show that in different ways philosophy has been put forward, and understood: books, discussions, dramas, movies, advertisements, novels, musics, paintings, and anything else where it has been differently given. The writer challenges here to explain and interpret philosophical meanings from such various points of view, according to its own contexts, very much articulately. By doing so, he believes that he would pinpoint its proper essence as necessary.

철학은 세계 지성의 역사에서 주도적 기능을 담당해 왔다. 그리하여 철학자들은 시초로부터 지적 격전장에서 지도적 역할을 수행하였다. 그러나 현대사회에서 그런 기능과 역할의 수행은 원활하지 않는데, 이는 외적 한계보다는 자체 내의 한계에서 기인된다. 즉, 철학의 활동영역이 전통적인 방법인 기록 문서인 책을 통한 방법에만 한정되어 있기 때문에, 다양한 문화의 전개와 소통방법이 다원화한 현대 사회에서의 요구를 반영하지 못하기 때문이다. 따라서 철학은 기존의 텍스트 중심의 소통방식만을 고집하기 보다는 다원화한 방법을 찾아 나서야 본래의 기능과 역할의 수월성을 회복할 수 있게 될 것이다. 그러므로 본 연구는 이것의 시론적 성격으로 대안을 제시해 보려는 생산적 연구이다. 철학적 논변은 반드시 논리, 그것도 ‘언어를 통한 논리적 변증을 표현한다’라는 기본 전제를 제고할 필요가 있다. 이것은 철학이 고전적 텍스트, 즉 책에 적힌 글만을 취급한다는 전통적 방식을 거부한다는 의미이다. 그렇다면 책과는 다른 매체들의 내용을 어떻게 같은 의미로 읽을 낼 수 있을까? 여기서는 후기 비트겐슈타인의 ‘말놀이’ 개념을 도입함으로써 다양한 방법론의 정당성을 확보하려고 한다. 놀이는 여러 가지가 있다. 그러나 그것은 하나로 통일된 기준을 갖고 있지는 않고, 다양한 맥락을 제 나름대로 읽어내는 특징을 <놀이> 이론을 통해 이해할 수 있다. 철학적 논변이 표현되거나 표현하는 것은 다양한 매체를 통해서 이뤄진다. 여기서는 인터넷, 영화, 음악 및 미술이라는 4가지를 예시하면서 그 특징을 살펴보았다. 우선, 우리 삶의 필수 요소로 자리잡은 기기는 인터넷이다. 그것은 최근 불과 20년 사이에 컴퓨터의 발달을 통해 급속도로 퍼진 의사소통 수단이다. 이것은 동시성과 개방성 그리고 상호성을 바탕으로 급속히 전 세계의 모든 유통체계를 정복해버렸다. 단순한 의사소통 체계를 넘어 이제는 모든 사물의 작동원리를 지배한 구동조직으로 철학적 의미와 전달의 메커니즘을 헤아려 볼 필요가 있다. 예컨대 영화, 음악, 미술은 오랜 세월 속에서 우리의 삶의 정보를 실어 나르는 기제이다. 이것들을 살핌으로써 철학은 보다 다양한 얼굴로 수행되어진다는 것을 여기에서 실험적으로 이해할 수 있으리라 기대된다.

텍스트, 방법, 비트겐슈타인, 인터넷, 영화, 음악, 미술