밀의 자유론과 해악의 원리 = J. S. Mill’s Theory of Liberty and the Harm Principle

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This essay discusses the essential feature of the idea of liberty espoused by John Stuart Mill and the liberty-limiting principles contained in his philosophical arguments on liberty. As the fundamental liberty-limiting principle, J. S. Mill vindicates the harm principle. Mill’s liberty principle with the harm principle states that the only purpose for which interference with the conduct of individuals is permitted is to prevent harm to others. The extent of Mill’s restriction on the scope of social intervention depends on whether intervention is confined to conduct which causes harm to others, or whether it applies much more broadly to cover cases in which intervention prevents harm to others. In this essay I discuss that Mill seems to move from a formulation of his principle in terms of harm-causing to one in terms of harm-prevention. Mill’s liberty principle as we understand this way is susceptible of being applied to contemporary issues of Korean society.
As Contemporary Korean society has been rapidly transforming from its traditional community and family-oriented structure into individualistic and nuclear family one, members of society have been and are experiencing tremendous diversity of the ambit of liberty, showing confusion on its true contents and limits With regard to the criminalization of adultery and homosexuality and the legal prohibition of pornography, there has been heated debate whether those regulation is appropriate under the constitutional rubric of liberal democratic society. As Korean society aspiring to be an advanced one, a fundamental task is to establish a genuine framework of liberal society, reconciling a core value of liberty enjoyed by individuals with its supplementing value of the common good. We may find a guideline for this kind of reconciliation between the individual liberty and the value of community from the delicate discussion on the true concept of liberty and its contour by John Stuart Mill.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 서론
• Ⅱ. 밀의 자유론
• Ⅲ. 해악의 원리와 해악방지의 원리
• Ⅳ. 해악방지의 원리의 적용사례 - 긴급한 위험에 처한 자에 대한 간이구조행위의 법적 강제와 관련하여
• Ⅴ. 자유론에서 기타 자유제한의 원리
• Ⅵ. 결론
• 인용 문헌
• Abstract