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๐Ÿ“˜ ใ€Ž๋„ค๋ฐœ์˜ ์ฒ ํ•™์žใ€๋ฅผ ์ฝ๊ณ  - The Happiness of Dogs

๐Ÿ“˜ ใ€Ž๋„ค๋ฐœ์˜ ์ฒ ํ•™์žใ€๋ฅผ ์ฝ๊ณ  - The Happiness of Dogs

๐Ÿ’ก (ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด) ๊ฐœ์™€ ์ฒ ํ•™์ด ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ง€์ 

ใ€Ž๋„ค๋ฐœ์˜ ์ฒ ํ•™์žใ€๋ฅผ ์ฝ๊ณ 

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  • ์ฑ… ์ œ๋ชฉ: ใ€Ž๋„ค๋ฐœ์˜ ์ฒ ํ•™์žใ€
  • ์ €์ž: ๋งˆํฌ ๋กค๋žœ์ฆˆ
  • ํ•œ์ค„ ๊ฐ์ƒ: ์• ๊ฒฌ์ธ์˜ ์ˆ˜ํ•„!

๐Ÿง ์Šค๋‹˜์˜ ๊ฐ•์—ฐ์—์„œ ์ฑ…์œผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ง„ ๊ธธ

์–ด๋–ค ๋งค์ฒด์—์„œ ์Šค๋‹˜์˜ ๊ฐ•์—ฐ์„ ์šฐ์—ฐํžˆ ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค.
โ€œํ–‰๋ณต์ด ๋ญ”์ง€ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ•˜์ง€ ๋งˆ๋ผ. ์‚ฐ์†์˜ ์‚ฌ์Šด์€ ํ–‰๋ณต์„ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ•˜๋Š”๊ฐ€? ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์‚ด์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.โ€

๊ทธ ๋ง์ด ๋งˆ์Œ์— ์˜ค๋ž˜ ๋‚จ์•˜๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋„์„œ๊ด€์—์„œ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•œ ใ€Ž๋„ค๋ฐœ์˜ ์ฒ ํ•™์žใ€๋Š” ๋งˆ์น˜ ๊ทธ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธ€๋กœ ์ •๋ฆฌํ•ด ๋†“์€ ๋“ฏํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
๊ฒŒ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ตœ์žฌ์ฒœ ๊ต์ˆ˜๋‹˜์˜ ์ถ”์ฒœ์‚ฌ๊นŒ์ง€ ์žˆ์–ด, ์ฝ์–ด์•ผ ํ•  ์ด์œ ๋Š” ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

์ฑ…์˜ ์‹œ์ž‘์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜จ ๋ฉ๊ฒŒ์˜ ์˜ˆ์‹œ๋„ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์› ๋‹ค. ์–ด๋ฆด ๋•Œ๋Š” ๋‡Œ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์–ด๋А ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋‡Œ๋ฅผ ํ‡ดํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๋ฉ๊ฒŒ. ์™œ ๊ทธ๋Ÿด๊นŒ? ๋‡Œ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ–๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋‹จ์ ์ด ๋˜์—ˆ๊ธฐ์—, ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋‡Œ ์—†๋Š” ์‚ถ์„ ์„ ํƒํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. โ€˜์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ์กด์žฌโ€™๋กœ ์‚ฐ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฌด์กฐ๊ฑด ์žฅ์ ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๋Š” ์ ์ด, ๋ฌ˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์™€ ๋‹ฟ์•˜๋‹ค.


๐Ÿ˜… ๊ธฐ๋Œ€์™€ ์•„์‰ฌ์›€ ์‚ฌ์ด

๋‹ค๋งŒ ์ฑ… ์ „์ฒด๊ฐ€ ์ฒ ํ•™์„œ๋ผ๊ธฐ๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š”, ์ €์ž๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ•์•„์ง€๋ฅผ ํ‚ค์šฐ๋ฉฐ ๋А๋‚€ ์ˆ˜ํ•„ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋А๋‚Œ์ด ๊ฐ•ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒ ํ•™์  ๋…ผ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋‚ ์นด๋กœ์›€๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š”, ๋ฐ˜๋ ค๊ฒฌ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ถ์—์„œ ์–ป์€ ์ž‘์€ ํ†ต์ฐฐ์ด ๋งŽ์•˜๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ์ธ์ง€ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ์•„์‰ฌ์›€๋„ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์—†๋Š” ์ž๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ํ‚ค์› ๋˜ ๊ฐœ์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ ๋“ฑ๋“ฑ..

๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณต๊ฐ๋˜๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„๋„ ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด, ์Šคํฌ์ธ ๋‚˜ ๋™์ „ ์Œ“๊ธฐ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ํ™œ๋™์—์„œ ๋ชฐ์ž…ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ฐ€๋„ โ€˜์•„, ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ง€๊ธˆ ๋ชฐ์ž…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ตฌ๋‚˜โ€™ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ธ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„, ๋ชฐ์ž…์ด ๋ฌด๋„ˆ์ ธ ๋ฒ„๋ฆฐ ๊ฒฝํ—˜.

์ €์ž๋Š” ์ด๋ฅผ โ€œ๋ชฐ์ž…ํ•˜๋Š” ๋‚˜โ€์™€ โ€œ๋ชฐ์ž…์„ ์ธ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋‚˜โ€๋กœ ๊ตฌ๋ถ„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐœ๋Š” ์˜ค์ง ์ „์ž๋งŒ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ธฐ์— ๋” ํ–‰๋ณตํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ์„ค๋ช…์ด ์ธ์ƒ์ ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋‚˜๋Š” โ€˜๋‚จ๋“ค์ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ๋‚˜โ€™๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” โ€˜๋ชฐ์ž…ํ•˜๋Š” ๋‚˜โ€™๋กœ ์‚ด์•„์•ผ๊ฒ ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์ด ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค.


๐Ÿพ ๊ฐœ๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์„ ๊ธธ๋“ค์ธ ๊ฑธ๊นŒ, ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€์ผ๊นŒ?

๋˜ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ๊ณต๊ฐ์ด ๊ฐ”๋˜ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€, ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ๋ฐ€์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋ฐ€์—๊ฒŒ ๊ธธ๋“ค์—ฌ์กŒ๋‹ค๋Š” ์žฌ๋ ˆ๋“œ ๋‹ค์ด์•„๋ชฌ๋“œ์˜ ๋น„์œ ๋ฅผ ๋– ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ฒŒ ํ•œ ๋Œ€๋ชฉ์ด๋‹ค.

์ €์ž๋Š” ๊ฐœ๊ฐ€ ์ธ๊ฐ„์—๊ฒŒ ์ ์‘ํ•œ ๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ์ธ๊ฐ„์ด ๊ฐœ์—๊ฒŒ ์ ์‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ฐœ๋Š” ์ธ์ง€์˜ ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์šด ์ง์„ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์—๊ฒŒ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ณ , ๊ทธ ๋Œ€์‹  ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ชฐ์ž…๋œ ํ–‰๋ณต์„ ๋ˆ„๋ฆฌ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ.

์ด ๋Œ€๋ชฉ์—์„œ๋Š” ์›ƒ์Œ์ด ๋‚˜์™”๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์น˜ ์žฌ์‚ฐ๊ด€๋ฆฌ, ์ž๋…€๊ต์œก ๋“ฑ๋“ฑ ์•„๋‚ด์—๊ฒŒ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฑธ ๋งก๊ธฐ๊ณ  ํ–‰๋ณต์„ ๋ˆ„๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋‚จํŽธ ๊ฐ™์€ ํ’๊ฒฝ์ด ๊ทธ๋ ค์กŒ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค.


โœ… ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ์ƒ๊ฐ

ใ€Ž๋„ค๋ฐœ์˜ ์ฒ ํ•™์žใ€๋Š” ์ฒ ํ•™์  ์ฒด๊ณ„๋กœ ๋ฌด์žฅํ•œ ์ฑ…์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ผ์ƒ์˜ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๋“ค์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ฒ ํ•™์„ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•œ๋‹ค.

  • ์ƒ๊ฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ์‚ด์•„๋‚ด๊ธฐ: ํ–‰๋ณต์€ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ์‚ด์•„๋‚ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.
  • ๋ชฐ์ž…์˜ ํž˜: ๋ชฐ์ž…ํ•˜๋Š” ๋‚˜์— ๋จธ๋ฌด๋ฅผ ๋•Œ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋” ์˜จ์ „ํžˆ ์กด์žฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
  • ๊ณต์กด์˜ ์„ฑ์ฐฐ: ์ธ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ๊ฐœ์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด, ์ ์‘์ด๋ž€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ด๋ฉฐ ํ–‰๋ณต์˜ ์ฃผ์ฒด๋Š” ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์ธ์ง€ ๋ฌป๋Š”๋‹ค.

์กฐ๊ธˆ์€ ๊ฐ€๋ฒผ์› ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ฐ€๋ณ๊ธฐ์— ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ํŽธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜จ ์ฒ ํ•™.
ํ–‰๋ณต์„ โ€˜์ƒ๊ฐโ€™ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ณด๋‹ค, ํ–‰๋ณต์„ โ€˜์‚ด์•„๋‚ด๋ผโ€™๋Š” ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์˜ค๋ž˜ ๋‚จ์•˜๋‹ค.

์„ฑ์ฐฐ!! ์„ฑ์ฐฐ๋กœ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ–‰๋ณตํ•ด์งˆ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ? ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ์„ฑ์ฐฐ์ด ์žˆ์ด๊ฒŒ ์‚ถ์ด ๊ณ ํ†ต์ด ๋˜๋Š”๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹๊นŒ?


๐Ÿ’ก Where Dogs Meet Philosophy

Reading ใ€ŽThe Philosopher and the Wolfใ€

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  • Book Title: ใ€ŽThe Philosopher and the Wolfใ€
  • Author: Mark Rowlands
  • One-line Impression: An essay of a dog lover!

๐Ÿง From a Monkโ€™s Talk to a Book

I once came across a monkโ€™s talk by chance:
โ€œDonโ€™t dwell on what happiness is. Does a deer in the forest ponder happiness? It simply lives.โ€

That thought lingered with me. Later, when I found ใ€ŽThe Philosopher and the Wolfใ€ in the library, it felt like that very idea had been put into writing.
Moreover, with Professor Choi Jae-cheonโ€™s recommendation, I had every reason to read it.

The book begins with the example of a sea squirtโ€”a creature that has a brain in its youth but later lets it degenerate. Why? Because keeping a brain becomes a disadvantage, so it chooses to live without one. The fact that being a โ€œthinking beingโ€ is not always an advantage struck me in an odd way.


๐Ÿ˜… Between Expectation and Disappointment

Still, the book reads less like a philosophical treatise and more like the authorโ€™s personal essays drawn from life with his dog.
Instead of sharp philosophical arguments, it offers small insights from everyday companionship. That left me a little disappointed.

Especially the parts about dogs he personally raised, which didnโ€™t particularly interest meโ€ฆ

Yet, I also found myself nodding along at times.
For instance, when he wrote about sports or stacking coinsโ€”simple activities where one can fall into deep concentration. But the very moment we become aware, โ€œAh, Iโ€™m immersed right now,โ€ the immersion collapses.

He distinguished this as the โ€œimmersed selfโ€ versus the โ€œself aware of immersion.โ€ Dogs live only as the former, and thatโ€™s why they are happier. That point stayed with me. I thought: I want to live as the โ€œimmersed self,โ€ not as the โ€œself others perceive.โ€


๐Ÿพ Did Dogs Tame Humans, or the Other Way Around?

Another part reminded me of Jared Diamondโ€™s metaphor: humans didnโ€™t tame wheatโ€”wheat tamed humans.

The author argues that it wasnโ€™t dogs who adapted to humans, but rather humans who adapted to dogs.
Dogs passed on the heavy burden of cognition to humans and in return gained simple, immersive happiness.

I couldnโ€™t help but laugh at that. It conjured the image of a husband happily enjoying life while leaving everythingโ€”finances, child-rearing, and moreโ€”in his wifeโ€™s hands.


โœ… Final Thoughts

ใ€ŽThe Philosopher and the Wolfใ€ is not armed with a systematic philosophy. Instead, it speaks philosophy through everyday moments.

  • Living rather than overthinking: Happiness isnโ€™t something to worry about, but something to live.
  • The power of immersion: We exist more fully when we remain in the immersed self.
  • Reflections on coexistence: The relationship between humans and dogs raises questions about adaptation and the true bearer of happiness.

It felt lighter than expected, but perhaps that lightness made it easier to approach.
The message that lingers: Donโ€™t just โ€œthinkโ€ about happinessโ€”live it.

Reflection!! Can reflection really make us happy? Or is it precisely reflection that makes life more painful?

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