论西方社会变迁中法律传统的转变

西方社会从古希腊时期发展到当代经历了三次重大的社会变迁,相应地西方法律传统也有三次重大的转变。法律传统的发展是社会变迁的产物,其中经济因素起到了决定性的作用。就西方社会发展而言,它的主线是商品经济从古代到现代经历了两次否定的辩证发展过程,最终扬弃了束缚其发展的种种障碍而发展到一个更高的阶段即当代发达资本主义市场经济。伴随着商品经济的发展,西方法律传统经历了一个由以物为目的的发展到以人为目的的发展再发展到以社会为目的的一个连续的过程,并为在它之中形成的实在法提供存在的场景。

On the Change of Legal Tradition in the Vicissitude of Western Society

From ancient Greece, the western world has undergone three important social vicissitudes, correspondingly there are three important changes taking place in the western legal tradition. The development of the legal tradition is the result of the social vicissitudes. In the development of western society, the commercial economy has undergone two negations before it reaches the higher phase of contemporary capitalist market economy. With the development of the commercial economy, the western legal tradition undergoes a continuous course of development for thing and development for man and this course gives birth to the positive law.