以人为逻辑起点的法学研究及其知识目标

Legal study and its knowledge goal with human logical starting point

研究是获取新的可靠知识的系统方法,这意味着研究必须采用学界公认的研究方法与研究路径来进行。法学研究也不例外,它是为获取有关法律的新颖性、可靠性知识,采取系统的、有规则的方法进行的一种智力创造活动。法学是人学,法学必须以人为逻辑起点,通过对“人的模式”的建构,提炼出“法律人”这一核心假定,从而就人的行为所引发的法律问题予以研究。在研究目标上,一是要强调法律知识的新颖性,即通过法学研究所产生的新知识能够占领制高点、填补空白点、深化聚焦点;二是要强调法律知识的可靠性,即相关的新知识能够言之成理、言之有据。对于法学研究结论的检验,可采取以理论检验理论、以事实检验理论、以规范检验理论、以逻辑检验理论等检验手段来予以完成。

Research is a systematic method to acquire novel and reliable knowledge,which means that research must be conducted using widely accepted research methods and steps that are accepted by the academia.Legal research is no exception,it is an intellectually creative activity conducted under a systematic and disciplined method in order to obtain novel and reliable legal knowledge.Jurisprudence is a humanistic study,thereby legal research should take human as its logical beginning,construct the“model of the human”and conceptualize the core assumption of“legal person”to research legal issues arising from human behaviors.In terms of research aims,legal research first emphasizes the novelty of legal knowledge,which means the new knowledge generated through legal research could occupy the theoretical high ground,fill in the knowledge gaps and deepen debates;second,legal research also emphasizes the reliability of legal knowledge,namely that the new knowledge can be well and solidly argued.Testing the truthfulness of legal research conclusions can be done using theoretical,factual,normative and logical test methods.