다산의 인간관, 사회관, 국가관에 관한 연구- 산업경제 분야 제도개혁안을 중심으로 -

Abstract

Tasan Jeong Yak-yong(1762-1836), a contemporary of the Western enlightenment philosophers, was a great thinker and reformmonger. By picking up relevant words and sentences to be gleaned from his major writings, this paper attempts to come to grips of his views on human-beings, society, and the state and the relationship thereof. In order to get to the heart of, and to better understand the structure of, and to measure the logical consistency of his whole reform ideas, which are so wide-ranged and varied, it is thought to be useful and fruitful to approach in this way. Like many enlightenment philosophers, Tasan regarded self-interest as innate and natural. He heartily admitted the importance of secure property rights to everything except for land for economic and social development. Here the similarity between them stops and the logical consistency of Tasan's ideas seems to fall apart. Unlike his contemporaries, who understood well how the markets work and could bring social harmony and thus stood against the state power and interventions (and thus helped pave the way toward democracy and capitalism), Tasan refused to relinquish the traditional Oriental thoughts of kingship and patriarchism. Instead, he called for a very highly active and interventionist state, stressing its leading and fostering roles and functions. The theoretical perspective underlying this paper is new institutional economics(NIE), an heir of enlightenment philosophy. The authors thought this model particularly useful in that most of Tasan's reform ideas were ultimately related and devoted to making economic and social institutions more efficient, which is the aim of NIE.