안티고네 신화의 법철학적 이해

Sophocles’s tragedy Antigone has been one of the most beloved art pieces for a numerous number of philosophers and authors throughout history. In the area of jurisprudence, Antigone used to be understood as a text about the conflict between state law and natural law. However, Antigone contains much more diverse topics for legal philosophy. In this article, Hegel’s idea of ‘law’s dialectical self-development’, Derrida’s thought of ‘the deconstruction of law and its relationship to justice’, and Badiou’s suggestion of ‘law as nonlaw and nonlaw as law’ are discussed in relation to Antigone, and the question of law’s irrational source, which is raised by British legal theorists Douzinas and Warrington, is addressed. Furthermore, this article accepts and critically reinterprets those ideas to suggest ‘individual unconscious’ and the ‘Amor Fati(the love of fate)’ as the source of the force of nonlaw. Additionally, Greek mythology is invited to the arena of legal philosophy. Focus has been especially put on the power of Greek mythology to unfamiliarize current law and morality, and its function as a medium for the communication between the conscious and the unconscious. What we can learn from Hegel's theory of tragedy with regards to contemporary jurisprudence is also discussed in relation to the crime of hubris, which is one of the essential topics of Greek mythology.