侵权法的文化意蕴——兼论侵权法与文化的关系

Cultural Connotation of Tort Law

侵权法是各个阶层的社会成员都有着强烈情感的主题,其涉入社会生活之深以至于会触及文化的神经。侵权案件所产生的争论常常反映出法律作用和道德作用在社会生活中的分野,使得侵权法实践往往会成为一系列的文化论战。侵权法对于复制了各种文化分歧的相互对立的观点的选择与折中——从原则、制度到规则,现实地代表了一种寻找社会灵魂的努力。文化共识是侵权法获得其制度有效性的基点,体现了侵权法规则和秩序成长的生命力量。现代侵权法应以新的法律认知取向、法律情感取向、法律评价取向作为其制度的文化底蕴。

Tort Law carries intense emotional theme social life and touches the very newe of culture. The concerning different social strata. It is embedded in dispute caused by Tort always reflects the difference between the role of law and that of morality in social life, which gives rise to a series of cultural disputes. Tort Law duplicates the choice and compromise of different cultural conflicting opinions from principle, system to regulation, represents the effort to seek the soul of the society. The cultural common view is the basis of the efficiency of the system of this law and shows the regulation of it and the power of the improvement of order. Modern Tort Law should have new legal cognitive orientation, legal emotion orientation and legal assessment orientation as the cultural connotation of its system.