The genealogy and the present practice of the "dogmatic method"

本课题的主要目的是描述“教条主义方法”在法学中的谱系和实践现状。在19世纪的德国私法科学中，学者们试图找出一些“实证法的关键原则”，并从这些原则出发，构建了系统的法学理论。他们相信，如果他们成功地进行了这种制度重建，他们就能够对法律有正确的认识。他们还认为，通过从他们的法律制度中推导出正确的方向，他们可以弥补立法中的所有缺陷。由于这些法学学者过分强调逻辑的一致性，忽视了对其法治建设的现实意义的评价，很快就被批评为“BegriffsFolricenes”。根据我迄今的研究，这种教条主义科学的方法在我们的法学中仍然在使用，应用它有一些好处。因为它使我们从书中解脱出来，例如，法律原则和准则引导我们更动态地思考法律，正如罗纳德·德沃金所强调的那样。基于这一点，我在2004-2006年试图理解这种处理法律的方式是如何在笛卡尔和霍布斯哲学的影响下在所谓的现代自然法学者中发展起来的。其次，我研究了19世纪的德国律师，重点是他们是如何在克里斯蒂安·沃尔夫、康德和黑格尔的哲学传统基础上发展这种思维方式的。在此基础上，我完成了我的著作《西方法律思想史》，该书将于2007年9月出版

The main object of this project is to describe the genealogy and the present practice of the "dogmatic method" in legal science.In German private law science of the 19th century, scholars tried to find out some "key-principles of positive laws", and starting from these principles, they constructed systematic theory of law. They believed that if they succeed in this systematical reconstruction, they will be able to obtain the correct understanding of the laws. They also believed that they can cover all defects in legislation by deducing correct directions from their legal system. Because these legal scientists went too far in relaying on the logical consistency and thus neglected to evaluate the practical meaning of their legal construction, they were soon criticized as "Begriffsjurisprudenz".According to my research so far, the method of this dogmatic science is still in use in our legal science and there are some advantages in applying it. Because it makes us for example free from the book stab application of laws ; the legal principles and maxims lead us to think laws more dynamically, as Ronald Dworkin stresses it.On this account, I tried in the years 2004-2006, firstly, to understand how this way of handling laws developed among so-called modern natural law scholars under the influence of Cartesian and Hobbesean philosophy. I studied, secondly, the 19th century German lawyers focusing on how they developed this way of thinking based on the philosophical tradition of Christian Wolff, Kant and Hegel. I also compared this type of legal science with those in the ancient Rome and the Middle Ages.Based on this research, I have completed my book "History of Western Legal Ideas", that will be published in September 2007