因果关系的历史轨迹与法律上的因果关系

因果关系是侵权行为法上的核心问题,亦是侵权行为法责任成立的构成要件之一,在理论和实务上均极为重要.毫无疑问,法律中的因果关系曾经受到过宗教、哲学中因果关系影响并吸纳了其中的很多重要理念,但是法律界对法律因果关系的探讨从来没有停止过.通过对因果关系历史轨迹的搜寻,发现在研究法律因果关系时,自然因果关系仍旧应该被视为是基础性的因果关系理念;当变身法律因果关系时,则应该视为是一种法律政策的考量.

History of the Causality and Legal Causality

The causality,as core issue of the tort law and one of the constitutive elements of tortious liability,has great importance both in theory and practice.The legal causality is doubtless affected by the religious and philosophical causality and from which assimilates many notions,however the jurisprudents never desist from probing into the legal causality.Searching for the history of causality,we may find that natural causality should remain the fundamental notion of the study on legal causality;and the legal...