社会法概念反思:社会法的实用主义界定与核心命题

Jurisprudential Reflection on the Concept of Social Law: The Pragmatic Definition and Core Propositions

社会法的概念是中国社会法研究的基础问题。回顾中国社会法学界对此问题的争论,可以发现各方在不同层面使用社会法的概念,其中中义社会法是在研究对象与研究领域的意义上界定社会法,而广义社会法则在研究方法上界定社会法,二者具有各自语境中的合理性。借用语言哲学与实用主义法理学理论,可以发现语词与概念并不具备本质性的含义,对语词与概念应采用问题导向的实用主义界定。从制度研究这一问题导向出发,可以提取和凝练社会法中的不平等性、持续性、外部性问题这三个核心命题。从这三个核心命题角度切入,可以更好地从制度角度理解社会法,也可以更好地借鉴域外学术研究,形成社会法与传统公法理论与私法理论的借鉴与互补。

The concept of social law is a basic issue in the study of social law in China.A review of the debate on this issue in China shows that the concept of social law has been used at different levels.The middle sense of social law defines social law in the sense of research object and research field,while the broad sense of social law defines social law in the sense of research method,both of the two definitions are reasonable in their respective contexts.An analysis using the theories of philosophy of language and pragmatic jurisprudence shows that words and concepts do not have essential meanings.We should adopt the problem-oriented pragmatism to define words and concepts.Starting from the problem-orientation of institutional research,we can extract and refine the three core propositions of inequality,sustainability and externality in social law.Understanding social law from the perspective of these three core propositions enables us to better grasp social law from the perspective of institutional research,and also to better learn from foreign academic research,thereby forming a relationship of mutual reference and mutual complementation between social law theory,traditional public law theory and private law theory.