依法治国与法律价值体系的重构

Rule of Law and the Reconstruction of a Legal Value System

法律价值就是法的存在、作用及其发展满足人的主体需要的一系列属性。它包括实质价值和形式价值两个层面。认识和研究法律价值 ,有助于调动人们对立法、执法、用法、守法的积极性并投身于法律运行的各个环节 ,有助于从观念到行动使法治成为社会生活的一部分。中国传统法律价值观与现代法律价值精神存在相互冲突的因素 ,必须在建设现代法治国家中 ,摒弃传统法律价值中的沉渣和糟粕 ,大胆借鉴人类一切文明成果 ,使中国法律价值实现从传统向现代的历史转型。

The legal value is a series of quality that can meet the need of personal subjectivity, legal value can motivate an active involvement in the process of legislation, administration, and abiding by the law, which would turn their thoughts and action into a part of legal social life. There are some conflicting factors between the Chinese traditional legal value and the modern legal value. During the course of constructing the rule of law, we must reject the irrational factors of Chinese traditional legal value and learn from the fruit of human civilization and thus promote the modernization of the Chinese legal value.