‘열린’ 가족 담론에 대한 불교적 검토

Abstract

Family deconstruction has become serious social problem in present-day society. Open family movement is one of the alternatives on Family deconstruction. To success of this movement, we have to change 'habits of the heart' that equates normal family with traditional family and look on various forms of open family as abnormal family. Then, how Korean Buddhism contributes to the success of Open family movement? In order to answer this question, we reviewed changes of structure and function of family. And we criticized existing theoretical debates on 'open family' from the Buddhist epistemological perspective. Next, we offered a Buddhist standpoint on family based on the Sutras, examined affinity of those and open family, especially focused on paternalism and descentism. And to conclude, we suggested practical program for success of open family movement.