在理性和信仰之间——对西方自然法学历史嬗变的评述

Between Rationality and Religious Beliefs——Comment on the Historical Development of Thought of Western Natural Law

西方自然法理论孕育于古希腊文明的母体,经历中世纪基督教的洗礼和近代工业文明的"除魅",并在现代迎来复兴。自然法反映了西方法律思想成长的脉动并蕴含着西方社会一系列重要的法价值观。从古希腊到近现代,法哲学家们所阐发的自然法,驻足于人类的理性和信仰之间,并将蕴含于其中的正义、法治等价值理念升华到崇高的境界。

Born from the ancient Greek culture,experiencing the baptism of Christianism in the middle ages and influenced by the modern industrial civilization,the theory of natural law meets its flourish in modern times.The natural law matches every step of the development of western legal thoughts and implies a set of important values of law of the western society.Since ancient Greece,the natural law,elucidated by philosophers and jurists and applied as a balance between rationality or of religious belief,has greatl...