Abstract:
In the 20th century, there were three important academic debates
in western legal circles, among which the most famous one was the debate
between Fuller and Hart on the relationship between law and morality. When
the relationship between morality and law becomes entangled, is it law or
morality that is adjusting our society? It is beyond dispute in the west, but back
to our traditional legal culture, seems there is also a kind of legal and moral
entanglements, and the law and the law has certain difference, fuller know
actually if we put the fuller about law and the moral understanding of the
relationship as “the law of morality”, so in traditional Chinese society should be,
by contrast, it should be called “the law of morality”. The purpose of this paper
is to clarify the difference between the moral nature of law and the legal nature
of morality.
20 世纪在西方法学界有三场重要的学术论战,其中最负盛名的就是富勒与哈特关于法律与道德关系的论战。当道德与法律的关系变得纠缠不清的时候,究竟是法律还是道德是人们应当首先遵守的行为标准?这在西方是无可争议的事情。但在传统中国,道德似乎超越法律,成为调整社会生活的重要方式。事实上如果我们把富勒关于法律与道德的关系理解为“法律中的道德性”,那么在传统中国社会的情况则与之相反,其应该被称为“道德中的法律性”。本文的目的就是理清这种法律的道德性与道德的法律性之间的区别。