无讼与中国法律文化

No Litigating and Chinese Legal Culture

无讼是中国传统法律文化的主导性价值取向。无讼所包含的和谐思想是中国社会的悠久而珍贵的思想传统和价值追求,在矛盾纠纷多发的当代社会转型期具有对利益进行调和与平衡、对社会动荡和混乱进行校正与修复的功能;但无讼对个体权利的压抑和重实体轻程序的观念影响了法律的权威和地位,成为法律文化现代化的阻碍因素,因此必须通过发展市场经济,构建市民社会,加强法制教育,培养公民法律信仰等方式和途径实现传统法律文化的现代化转换。

No litigating is the primary value of traditional Chinese legal culture.The harmonious thought that it contains was a precious tradition of Chinese society,which can balance contradiction and calm turbulence at the changing period.But it's depressing individual right and despising procedure affected the law's authority and position,which had became the baffling factor of modernization of law culture. For this reason we must develop the market economy , set up the citizen society, enhance the legal system education to foster the citizen's law belief so as to achieve the conversion from traditional legal culture to a modern one.