纠纷解决与美好生活--转型中国司法的政治意涵

Dispute Resolution and Good Life: Political Connotation of Transitional Chinese Judicature

面对社会矛盾纠纷的日益多发以及法院系统内日趋尖锐的"案多人少"矛盾,当下中国司法不仅日益强化了以纠纷的实质性化解为整体目标导向的司法政策,而且也更加突出"结果"在评价纠纷化解活动时的权重和地位。由此反向塑造法院的纠纷化解实践,所带来的不仅是纠纷解决过程中"规则退隐"现象的加剧,而且也削弱了司法裁判输出价值认同和意义资源的能力。这既不利于当下中国司法公信力与权威的提升,也不利于通过司法建构美好生活的能力践行。因此,要重新塑造法院之于社会的整体功能,意识到转型中国的司法不仅要有效地处理纠纷,恢复社会生活的公共秩序;也要通过纠纷的处理来达成多元价值和利益的基础性共识,进而整合起秩序重建所需的基础性社会资源;更要开启有关美好生活的公共讨论,并努力以司法的日常实践来推动和塑造有德性的公民以及更有尊严的生活。

In face of the increasingly sharp contradiction of "more cases and fewer people",the current Chinese court system not only strengthens the overall goal orientation of the judicial policy of substantive dispute resolution,but also highlights the weight and status of "results"in the evaluation of dispute resolution. Thus,the reverse shaping of the court dispute resolution practice not only brings about the phenomenon of "rule retirement"in the process of dispute resolution,but also weakens the ability of judicial judgment to output value identification and meaning resources. Obviously,it is not conducive to the improvement of the current judicial credibility and authority in China,nor to the practice of the ability to build a better life through justice. Thus,China’s judicial system in transition should not only deal with disputes effectively and restore the public order of social life,but also reach the basic consensus of multiple values and interests through the handling of disputes,and then integrate the basic social resources needed for order reconstruction.