关于法律文化概念构建的再思考——对概念和问题本身的诘问

Rethinking the Conceptual Construction of "Legal Culture": An Interrogation of the Concept and Question Proper

分析哲学学派认为,研究的第一步不是回答问题而是审查问题。我们在分析法律文化概念构建问题时,应该思考的不仅仅是如何构建这一概念的问题,也该同时反思一下这种研究范式无法深入的深层次原因;就构建前提而言,法律文化对于法律为亲和性机制而非因果性机制,就研究范式的解释力而言,也存在诸多不足,所以,法律文化概念乃至以其为基础的法律文化研究被学界质疑也就不足为奇。

The analytic school of philosophy maintains that the first step of research is not to answer but to examine questions. In the analysis of the conceptual construction of legal structure, one should not only consider the conceptual construction, hut also rethink the profound reasons why this research pattern cannot develop further. This article points out that, as far as the premise of construction is concerned, legal culture is affinity mechanism instead of causality mechanism to law. Besides, there exist many demerits about the explanatory power of the research pattern. Therefore, it is easy to understand why the concept of legal culture and research on its basis are called in question in academic circles.