论民法理念及其现实意义

民法理念是民法的最高价值与终极宗旨,具体表现为私权神圣和私法自治,其形成有着经济与人文基础。由于长期的封建历史传统、商品经济不发达、公法优位、泛道德主义与重刑主义严重等原因,我国没有形成私法传统,缺失民法理念。民法理念对于引导民法典的制定、培育私法文化、促进经济发展与政治文明具有重要的意义。

The Notion of Civil Law and Its Significance to China

The notion of civil law is the supreme value and tene t of civil law, which includes sacrosanctity of private right and autonomy of private law. The development of such notion has its economic and humanistic basi s. China lacks the notion of civil law because of the feudal tradition, the unde velopment of the commodity economy, the priority of public law, and the overrun of moralism and penalty. Such notion has great significance for the codifica tion of civil law, the gestation of private law, the improvement of market econo my and political civilization.