中国古代刑事法律规范中的原则及思想

根据现代刑法学理论对中国古代刑事法律规范中所蕴涵的原则和思想进行分析。刑法是掌握政权的的阶级为了维护其阶级利益,根据本阶级意志以国家名义颁布、规定犯罪及其刑事责任的法律规范总和。它是一个历史范畴,具有阶级性、政治性和法律性,是一个国家和民族文化价值在经济价值上的反映。因而刑法又具有经济性和文化性。这就决定了古代刑法既具有共同的原则,又因各自所处时代政治、经济、文化,以及地理环境的不同,而具有独特之处。同时,在中国封建刑法思想当中关于对德、刑关系的深刻认识,有力的促进了礼、法的协调统一,构成了中国古代封建刑法。

The Principle and Thought of Ancient Chinese Criminal Legal Norm

This paper will apply theory of modern criminal law to analyze the principle and thought contained in ancient Chinese crimi- nal legal norm. Criminal law is a sum of legal norm that the ruling class, according to the will of their own class, enacted and stipulated crime and its criminal responsibility to protect their own interest. Criminal law is a historical category with the nature of class, polity and law, a reflection in economic value of a country and a nation's cultural value. Therefore, criminal law possesses economic and cultural nature, which decided that the ancient criminal law contained generality and uniqueness due to the difference in time, polity, economy, culture, and geographical environment. Meanwhile, in the thought of ancient Chinese criminal law, the profound understanding on virtue and punishment lead to the harmony and accord of courtesy and law and developed into the feudal Chinese criminal law.