“韦伯命题”之争及其启示

上世纪初,韦伯提出并论证了韦伯命题——中国司法属于非形式主义的卡迪司法。近百年以后,中国大陆就这一命题的真伪进行了长达10多年的高水准学术论辩。如果正确理解了韦伯社会学思想的核心概念——理想类型——及其衍生的卡迪司法的真谛,并运用整体的观念来评价中国司法,则韦伯命题的成立是无可置疑的,否定论者所列举的实证材料,并不是韦伯立论的基点。韦伯命题之争有复杂的时代背景,它的背后涉及法律文化是否存在普适性价值、不同时空中的法律文化是否存在可比性、如何客观认知和理性对待本族法律文化传统、法律现代化是否可欲及其价值取向等重大的法理问题,特别是对形式主义司法的认知与评价这一重大的司法哲学问题。这些与中国司法未来走向息息相关的时代性问题都值得法学界认真对待。

Arguments and Enlightenment of Weber's statement

At the beginning of last century,Marx Weber presented and justified his statement-Chinese judicature featured Kadi justice of non-formalism.Nearly a hundred years later,there have been high-level academic arguments on the authenticity of this statement for more than a decade in China's Mainland.If we correctly understand the core concept of Webers sociological thoughts-the ideal type-and the true meaning of the Kadi justice that it extends,and use the overall concept to evaluate Chinese justice,the establishment of Webers statement is unquestionable.The empirical materials lis?ted by the negativists are not the basis of Weber*s statement.The arguments of Weber s statement lie in a very complex background,and these arguments involve legal culture behind the existence of universal value,whether legal culture are comparable in different time and space,how to objective cognition and rational treatment of native traditional legal culture,whether legal modernization can be achieved,what is value orientation of legal modernization and other major legal problems,especially to the formalism of judicial cognition and evaluation of this major problem of judicial philosophy.All these questions of the times closely related with the future of Chinese Judicature are deserved to be seriously treated by the law circle.