桑弘羊法治思想管窥

On Sang Hongyang's Thought of Legal Administration

桑弘羊是一位崇尚"法治"的现实政治家,其法治思想主要表现为"天道然"的唯物主义自然定命法律思想、"以刑止刑"的严刑峻罚立法论、"法势以治"的力刑并重法治观。他所倡导的法治思想和政治制度,成为其强化君主专制的思想主轴,目的是为了加强专制中央集权,是为当时的官营盐铁政策服务,这种重刑主义思想对当时乃至以后的传统法律思想和政治制度影响颇深。

Sang Hongyang is a realistic politician in Han Dynasty, who is in favour of legal administration, featured with divine way---materialist nature-determining, legislative power of severe penalty and the combination of power and penalty, which has great influence on the contemporary and afterward traditional legislative and politic rules. These thoughts became the contemporary mental core in order to strengthen absolutist centralization system and serve for the governmental salt-iron policy.