If we look at the environmental and ecological problems that we humans need to solve from a negative point of view, we will have no choice but to express it as a global disaster. Of course, there is also an optimistic view that the risks caused by the excessive development of science and technology can be controlled by more advanced science and technology. In many cases, solutions to the ongoing problems of the global environment remain only a temporary stopgap measure without much progress. As a result, about the environment and ecology is difficult to accept simply as optimistic. In Deep Ecology, this existing view of dealing with global environmental issues is called ‘Shallow Ecology’. And its main point is a critique of man’s view of nature as a mere object of domination. From the perspective of Deep Ecology, it argues for a paradigm shift in the “anthropocentric” perspective that justifies the domination of nature. In other words, they argue that the question needs to be expanded and deepened to be “life - centered” rather than “anthropocentric” in order to raise a deeper question on the problem of environmental ecology and to face more fundamental problems. With this assertion on the premise, in this thesis, the possibility of establishing a new theory of ecology was thought within the ideas of Donghak and Chondogyo. This study proceeds through the following process. First, it discusses the fact that the problem of ‘anthropocentrism’ on which the current ecological theory, which is the subject of criticism, is based, has an affinity with the ‘ideology of domination of nature’. Second, it suggests that the idea of domination of nature is ultimately derived from ‘logocentrism’ and that the solution must be found within the post - Western system of thought. Third, it examines in what alternative form the life - centered ecological basis can be found in the thought of Donghak·Chondogyo.