人文精神、守法意識與法治教育

Humanity, Law-Abiding Consciousness, and the Law-Related Education

莊世同(Shih-Tung Chuang)

《政治與社會哲學評論》 15期 (2005/12) Pp. 89-130

https://doi.org/10.6523/168451532005120015003

摘要

長久以來，法治教育的改革，一直是我們極為重視的一項課題。然而從近年來台灣社會發生的種種法治亂象來看，卻給人一種法治風氣漸行敗壞的感覺。這不禁令人憂心地想要追問：「問題到底出在哪裡？」基於對這個重要問題的關懷，本文嘗試在人文精神、守法意識與法治教育三者之間，梳理出一條清楚的論述理路，來審視法治教育的本質。本文認為，法治教育是一種守法意識的養成教育，守法意識的內涵，又毋寧是一種人性價值的展現，而人性價值的展現，則是對於人之存在價值給予消極道德肯認，或者進一步給予積極道德珍視的實踐評價態度。在這個意義之下，法治教育既是一種人文教育，也是一種道德教育；同時，本文也認為，一個成功的法治教育，不應只是以培養本於關心自我，進而展現自主與尊重之人性價值的消極守法意識為宗旨，而是應該致力於培養人民具有關心他人、關懷社會正義的積極守法意識。

關鍵字

人文精神 ； 人性價值 ； 自主 ； 尊重 ； 關懷 ； 守法意識 ； 關心自我 ； 關心他人 ； 法治教育

並列摘要

For a long time, the reform of Law-Related Education has been one of the most important issues we primarily concern. However, in view of the recent lawless occurrences happened in Taiwan, it seems that our development of the rule of law has been led to a corrupted direction. ”What's wrong with it” such a question has given rise to some serious attention. For this reason, along with a clear line of argument, the present essay attempts to survey the relations of humanity, law-abiding consciousness and the Law-Related Education. The Law-Related Education, as we shall see, should be an education which strives to cultivate the law-abiding consciousness embedded in our shared human values. And the fulfillment of these human values could appear as a negative moral recognition or a positive moral preciousness of the humanity. In this sense, the Law-Related Education should be both a humanist and moral education. Furthermore, I shall also argue that a successful Law-Related Education should devote to cultivating not only the negative/self-regarding consciousness based on our shared values of autonomy and respect, but also the positive/others-regarding consciousness appealing to the values of care and social justice.

並列關鍵字

Humanity ； human values ； autonomy ； respect ； care ； law-abiding consciousness ； self-regarding ； others-regarding ； Law-Related Education

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