반지성주의와 음모론

Abstract

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 Homers 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 Ciceros 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 paper contends that the history of humanities is to be summarized by the fighting and struggling of intellectualism against anti-intellectualism.