人与文化和法——从人的文化原理看中西法律文化交流的可行与难题及其克服

本文认为文化是人类最本质的属性,从人的文化原理出发,是我们认识人类文明包括中西法律文化的基点。依人生论哲学,人的文化原理是心主身从,即理性控制非理性,精神支配物质,神灵指导人类。人类文明共同遵循着这一人的文化原理,法律文化亦不例外。中西法律文化内贯共同的人的文化原理,在人的文化原点、原理及其展开的轴心和结构模式上有其共同性,因此两者的交流本质上是可行的。虽然理性内涵的差异导致了交流上的困难,但难题依然可以克服。这一原理性认识既可检讨中西法律文化交流的历史实践,又可分析和推论中国法律文化构成的当下实践及其未来走向。

Human, Culture and Law

The author suggested that culture is the basic nature of human beings and cultural doctrines is the standpoint we must take in considering human culture.Chinese and western legal culture adopted common human cultural doctrines so they can communicate with each other, although there are some difficulties in this process, those difficulties can be overcome.This consideration can be used to investigate the history of these two legal cultures and to analyses current practice and future development of China's legal culture.