数千年来所形成的重刑轻民、民法虚无主义的传统法律文化,给当代中国的法学发展带来了许多消极的影响。表现之一就是,时下流行的许多法理学著作实际上都是传统刑法理论的一种折射和概括(当然,更深层的原因则应向传统的政治体制和经济体制寻找)。限于篇幅,本文不拟展开论证传统刑法理论是怎样地长期支配中国的法理学,现在的关键问题是:从什么地方作为突破口,来重构当代中国的法理学? 经过多年的思考,我得出了这样的认识:重构当代中国法理学的突破口,则是振兴与弘扬民法精神,依据民法精神来建立法理学体系。 一、民法是现代法制的基础。 民法虽然只是众多部门法中的一种,但从人类法制现代化的历史中可以看出,当代宪法、刑法、诉讼法、 The traditional legal culture of tion, light civilians formed over thousands of years and nihilism of civil law has brought many negative influences on the development of law in contemporary China. One of the manifestations is that many popular jurisprudence books are actually reflections and generalizations of traditional criminal law theories (of course, deeper reasons should be sought from the traditional political system and economic system). Due to space limitations, this article does not intend to demonstrate how the traditional theory of criminal law is a long-term domination of China’s jurisprudence, the key question now is: from what place as a breakthrough to reconstruct the contemporary jurisprudence in China? After many years of thinking, I come to This understanding: Reconstruction of a breakthrough in contemporary Chinese jurisprudence, it is to revitalize and promote the spirit of civil law, according to the spirit of civil law to establish jurisprudence system. First, civil law is the foundation of modern legal system. Although civil law is only one of many departmental laws, it can be seen from the history of the modernization of human legal system that contemporary constitutional law, criminal law, procedural law,