自由意志与法官的道德责任

Free Will and the Moral Responsibility of Judges

法官可以自由地作出裁判,因此法官应为其裁判承担道德责任。作为法官道德责任基础的自由,是一种作为慎思的自由,它对负责任的裁判提出了极高的要求。法官应把自己视为法律人共同体的一员,并根据专家标准作出慎思的裁判,尽最大努力追求司法之善。这种责任观为司法提供了一个诱人的伦理目标,使得法官不仅仅是在整体的,而且也在个人化的意义上成为法律和道德的实践者。

Judges can make decisions based on free will,so they should bear moral responsibility.Freedom,which is the basis of judges’moral responsibility,is freedom of deliberation,and it places extremely high demands on judgments.Judges should regard themselves as members of the legal community,make deliberate judgments based on expert standards,and do their utmost to pursue judicial good.This view of responsibility provides an attractive ethical goal for justice,and makes judges become practitioners of law and morality.