开放“法律体系”的方法论意义

The Methodological Significance of Opening “Legal System”

仅在封闭法律体系内依法办事,不仅会产生一般法律与个别正义的冲突,还可能产生法律与社会现实的隔离。因而需要在开放法律体系中重新塑造具体法律的意义。建立在文义解释方法基础上的"合法性",不仅存在运用方法的单一性,出现机械司法、执法的现象,而且还会割裂法律与其他社会规范(包括法律价值体系)的关系。具体法律意义的塑造需要综合运用法律方法,其中体系思维和体系解释方法发挥着重要作用。体系思维要求人们认真对待法律规范体系(部门法体系)、法律渊源体系、法律价值体系、法律话语体系、法治理论体系,以及法律方法论体系(法律思维规则体系)等。从司法、执法过程来看,这些"体系"都可以视为开放"法律体系"的要素,体系思维和体系解释方法就是在这些要素间寻求一致性或融贯性,这对法治中国的实现有建设性意义。

Abiding by law only within a closed legal system will not only produce a conflict between general law and individual justice,but also result in the isolation of law from social reality.Therefore,it is necessary to remodel the meaning of specific law in an open legal system.The legitimacy based on the method of text interpretation not only shows the singleness of using method,but also appears the phenomenon of mechanical judicature and mechanical law enforcement.It also separates the relationship between law and other social norms,including legal value system.The shaping of specific legal meaning requires comprehensive use of legal methods,in which systematic thinking and systematic explanation play an important role.System thinking requires people to take seriously the legal norms system(departmental law system),the legal origin system,the legal value system,the legal discourse system,the rule of law theory system,and the legal methodology system(thinking system of rule of law).From the view of the judicial and law enforcement,these"systems"can be regarded as the elements of the open"legal system",and the system thinking and systematic explanation method is to seek consistency or coherence between these elements,which has constructive significance to the realization of the rule of law in China.