法家是先秦诸子中对法律最为重视的一派。法家认为人都有“好利恶害”或者“就利避害”的本性,因此,法家重视法律的规范作用,反对儒家的“礼治”。虽然法家伦理与现代法治精神有本质的区别,但其强调法律的平等性、公开性等思想,对于当今中国的法治建设有借鉴意义,是法治建设的本土资源。 Legalists are the most preoccupied group of lawyers in pre-Qin philosophers. Legalists think that people have the nature of “good and evil” or “profit and avoid harm”. Therefore, legalists pay attention to the normative role of law and oppose Confucian “rituals.” Although there is an essential difference between the ethics of legalism and the modern spirit of the rule of law, its emphasis on the equality and openness of the law is of reference to the construction of the rule of law in China today and is a local resource for the rule of law.