Critique of the political self : criticism of the conceptual adequacy of political culture from the perspective of Plato, Hobbes, Montesquieu, and Kant
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The last four decades' national bifurcation in Korea reflects not only the international power struggle between powerful foreign nations but also their ideological conflict. Under the assumption that the internalization by the Korean people of the conflict between incompatible ideologies developed in foreign countries is likely to have caused division in the mind of the Korean people, the conceptual adequacy of political culture to deal with the totality of the political self is examined. An attempt to form a concept to deal with the total political mind is made by reviewing great Western political thinkers' conception of the political self. It is demonstrated that the political self has two component parts: the observed political self and the observing one. In light of the broad conception of the political self, the examination of the definition of political culture shows its nature as being identical with the observed political self. The implication is that, without the synthetic and unifying function of the observing political self, the concept of political culture is likely to foster division in the self. At the same time, it is also found that the observing political self is hidden behind the facade of valuefree political science. There is a danger that this illegitimate part of the concept of political culture replaces the true observing self of the people who are under the great ideological influence of foreign nations.
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