富含人性的传统法律及其当代魅力——对“亲亲相隐”原则法律价值的透视

国内外法律实践无可辩驳地证实,任何国家的制定法只有通彻人性,饱含人文关怀,才能够赢得民众的支持,才能真正发挥调整功能。毫不夸张地说,法律的人性化构成了法律的价值基础。而我国古代法律中的"亲亲相隐"制度恰恰抓住了人所具有的悲悯之情。自古至今,它所展现的人性魅力,使法律理性和天然人性实现了有机统一。我们之所以今天依然要推崇"亲亲相隐"制度,就是因为它将为修正我国刑事法律的人性匮乏提供实证支撑。

Traditional Law of Rich Humanity and Its Contemporary Charm——On the Legal Value of the Principle Tolerating and Concealing Between Kinfolks

The law is not the result of caprice and unconsidered action of any legislators.Consequently,these legislators can not legislate for the masses on the occasion of breaking the limitations coming from their specific living fields,disserving the inheriting of the history and the culture and ignoring the ethic of the masses.Without the profound humanity and intensive humanist concern,the law will not be supported by the masses and administered in the justice departments.Hence,it is true to state that the basis of the laws' value is its humanity.Being passed from generation to generation,the system of tolerating and concealing between kinfolks falls for human's commiseration and provides a humane charm for the rigid law,which in the end makes the reason of the law and the natural humanity exist harmoniously.The system of tolerating and concealing between kinfolks offers a support for amending the insufficiency of the humanity in the Chinese penal laws.