영화로 노동-법 읽기 ― 노동법 교육 방법의 모색 ―

Nowadays teaching method becomes hot issue more and more because universities are losing their position of social leader on education. And they search for more adequate method of education. And this situation is the same in the field of law education, especially teaching labor law. And in this point consilience is taken note of. Consilience, or the unity of knowledge (literally a “jumping together” of knowledge), has its roots in the ancient Greek concept of an intrinsic orderliness that governs our cosmos, inherently comprehensible by logical process, a vision at odds with mystical views in many cultures that surrounded the Hellenes. The rational view was recovered during the high Middle Ages, separated from theology during the Renaissance and found its apogee in the Age of Enlightenment. Then, with the rise of the modern sciences, the sense of unity gradually was lost in the increasing fragmentation and specialization of knowledge in the last two centuries. The converse of consilience in this way is Reductionism. The word consilience was apparently coined by William Whewell, in The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, 1840. In this synthesis Whewell explained that, “The Consilience of Inductions takes place when an Induction, obtained from one class of facts, coincides with an Induction obtained from another different class. Thus Consilience is a test of the truth of the Theory in which it occurs.”Modern views understand that each branch of knowledge studies a subset of reality that depends on factors studied in other branches. Atomic physics underlies the workings of chemistry, which studies emergent properties that in turn are the basis of biology. Psychology can no longer be separated from the study of properties emergent from the interaction of neurons and synapses. Sociology, economics, and anthropology are each, in turn, studies of properties emergent from the interaction of countless individual humans. The fact that all these different areas of research are studying one real, existing universe is an apparent explanation of why generalizations arrived at in one area have often helped in understanding other areas. Consilience is thus often used as an argument for scientific realism by philosophers of science. So I'd like to solve this problem by introducing law and cinema. we are on a threshold of a new era, in which cinema―fiction, documentary, and other genres―is perceived not only as an instrument for the expression of thoughts and reflections, but also as a sufficiently rich practice from which it is possible to learn about other practices, and, specifically, about law. In America several law schools include, as part of their J.D. curriculum, a course on Law and Cinema; law professors resort to film in “traditional” classes and scholarly articles; and law libraries provide academics with library resources tailored to research the subject matter. Conferences are held in this field. Korean universities follow America. I introduced two films―Germinal and Modern Times― and tried law and cinema in the field of labor-law.