法学方法论的困境与出路——论最小损害原则

近几年以来,国内对法学方法论的研究呈现出一派繁荣之势。但其成效如何,却有待检验。文章结合中国司法实践中所出现的疑难案件来检验当下法学方法论研究的成果,指出语义分析、法律解释、法律论证与利益衡量等法学方法所面临的困境与原因。在此基础上,从现实的司法实践中总结、重构出最小损害原则,以法律教义学体系为最小损害的对象,以损害之命题所处的层级、损害之确定性程度、损害的原因以及损害的波及度作为比较损害大小的标准,以期为至少大部分疑难案件提供可能的解决思路。

The Problems and Their Solution in Legal Methodology: On the Principle of Minimum Mutilation

Recently,the study of legal methodology seems to be very flourishing in China.This article tries to inspect whether it can solve the hard cases or not.Through this testing,the truth seems to be that all these methods including semantic analysis,legal interpretation,legal argumentation,and benefit-balancing have some serious problems.In order to resolve these problems,this article brings up the principle of minimum mutilation which comes from the real judicial practice.