This is another in the series of essays that were presented at the “来华外国人与近代中国法” 国际学术研讨会 "Foreigners and Modern Chinese Law" International Symposium Conference and then continued thereafter in the same spirit.
No.186 许章润:法意今古,总不外世道人心 (No. 186 Xǔ Zhāngrùn: Past or present, the meaning of the law is always about the 'Dao' of the world and our morals).
In this very interesting and elegant short essay Xǔ Zhāngrùn speaks to his essay 汉语法学论纲 (“The General Principle on Hanyu Jurisprudence, ), and expresses his appreciation for those who support his scholarly project. The essay is written in a lyrical literary style that is worth the read in which he reflects that the work is a dialogue with my readers, it is private, intimate but also public. It is private because sometimes, certain things only enjoy between those close circles. It is public because the issues are about public and its interests. He speaks to the meta-narrative that is the Chinese state and the great transitions in its jurisprudential approaches. noting that “The current landscape” is not only an important research field but that research is also the Chinese intellectual’s responsibility to society. He reflects that the prior two hundred years of jurisprudential transition was full of sacrifices, expecting the “last sacrifice” will be the beginning of an “end.”This is connected with both individual and societal purpose. Morally, he notes, we all serve a purpose. History is a tool with purposes. However, the expression of human experience, and expression of life, and even creation of life is a privilege, and of course, a responsibility. The subject’s struggle of the “id “in this mundane life, the search for a self is the essence of the self. Thus, he posits, the tool (history) transcends “fate,” the desire of transcendence is the purpose. “fate” is the nature of things, but “desire” give us action. We cannot know/ see our “Tyche” (the Chinese words is fate ming yun命运), but our effort and our pursuance defined us. With these efforts, we can break our fate as a tool and transcend from fate. This semiotics approach is then reflected in his notion of the social self. He explains: the self is bounded by the others, thus the formation of “others” (e.g., the "public" or societal) affects every aspect of self, which is why, he argues, one needs to be especially careful about the process of formation; this is a high stakes process for which we need principle, doctrines, and morals. It is within this normative conceptual space that philosophers have created the idea that people are eager to be good, and humans do show the incapable desire for goodness and the concept of responsibility, giving the species dignity, and thus reflecting and tempering the history of mankind into a steady process of reaching toward "the good." That is a moral he draws form the aftermath of the French Revolution, after which the discussion about forms of law and politics are directed toward serving and maintaining a sustainable and stable peaceful collective living. It is in the service of that project that intellectuals have a responsibility to the public. Therefore, it is necessary to discuss the form of civil society and the civilized time and space, to implement its thinking in the earth and to give its universal character, including everything such as the Chinese mind The human mind of the heavenly life, but also by the practice of rational and temper the formation of human virtue of the righteousness, of course, and that is called the intellectuals to this specific labor and mission. My thanks to GAO Shan for his translation and the exchange that enriched the reading of this essay.
In this very interesting and elegant short essay Xǔ Zhāngrùn speaks to his essay 汉语法学论纲 (“The General Principle on Hanyu Jurisprudence, ), and expresses his appreciation for those who support his scholarly project. The essay is written in a lyrical literary style that is worth the read in which he reflects that the work is a dialogue with my readers, it is private, intimate but also public. It is private because sometimes, certain things only enjoy between those close circles. It is public because the issues are about public and its interests. He speaks to the meta-narrative that is the Chinese state and the great transitions in its jurisprudential approaches. noting that “The current landscape” is not only an important research field but that research is also the Chinese intellectual’s responsibility to society. He reflects that the prior two hundred years of jurisprudential transition was full of sacrifices, expecting the “last sacrifice” will be the beginning of an “end.”This is connected with both individual and societal purpose. Morally, he notes, we all serve a purpose. History is a tool with purposes. However, the expression of human experience, and expression of life, and even creation of life is a privilege, and of course, a responsibility. The subject’s struggle of the “id “in this mundane life, the search for a self is the essence of the self. Thus, he posits, the tool (history) transcends “fate,” the desire of transcendence is the purpose. “fate” is the nature of things, but “desire” give us action. We cannot know/ see our “Tyche” (the Chinese words is fate ming yun命运), but our effort and our pursuance defined us. With these efforts, we can break our fate as a tool and transcend from fate. This semiotics approach is then reflected in his notion of the social self. He explains: the self is bounded by the others, thus the formation of “others” (e.g., the "public" or societal) affects every aspect of self, which is why, he argues, one needs to be especially careful about the process of formation; this is a high stakes process for which we need principle, doctrines, and morals. It is within this normative conceptual space that philosophers have created the idea that people are eager to be good, and humans do show the incapable desire for goodness and the concept of responsibility, giving the species dignity, and thus reflecting and tempering the history of mankind into a steady process of reaching toward "the good." That is a moral he draws form the aftermath of the French Revolution, after which the discussion about forms of law and politics are directed toward serving and maintaining a sustainable and stable peaceful collective living. It is in the service of that project that intellectuals have a responsibility to the public. Therefore, it is necessary to discuss the form of civil society and the civilized time and space, to implement its thinking in the earth and to give its universal character, including everything such as the Chinese mind The human mind of the heavenly life, but also by the practice of rational and temper the formation of human virtue of the righteousness, of course, and that is called the intellectuals to this specific labor and mission. My thanks to GAO Shan for his translation and the exchange that enriched the reading of this essay.
许章润,清华大学法学院教授
小友徐恒,法大三年级学生,组织“番薯会文化沙龙”,不时邀约学人,围绕选定主题,聚三五好友,座谈切磋。“番薯”者,“翻书”也。此间用意,在于沟通师生,分享心得,造成读书风气,养育爱智心性,作育探索心志。其事功筹划、公益心肠与奉献精神,难能可贵。
法 大校园窘迫,师生局处一隅,多年不见改观,为京城高校之异数。学生宿舍区一处简易临建,二楼咖啡室,紧紧巴巴,约能容纳二十人,是徐恒们的据点。2015 年12月19日,天寒料峭,雾霾锁城,在下驱车昌平,欣回母校,应约就拙著《汉语法学论纲》,与青年才俊座谈。当日徐恒君主持,略备茶点。前来同学诸君, 概有二十来位,聚拢围坐,满满当当。
《汉语法学论纲》作者:许章润出版社:广西师范大学出版社
青春所在,光辉四溢,虽陋室而不能掩。思绪氤氲,精神滋长,心驰八极,串联起校园与家园,鼓荡起心气与心志,而它们都是或者应当是人间适所安居之花园,更是心气之所向,心志之所在。
徐 恒君简要阐释座谈主题之后,我就拙著相关论题,做一小时概述,然后诸君讨论提问,我再回答,间有往还。既为漫谈,复有交锋,闲散而紧张。整个过程,计约 三、四小时。待活动结束,出门四顾,寒意扑面,暮色沉沉,天地混沌。楼舍窗口的灯光疲弱而迷茫,如老人混沌的眼神。往昔苍苍莽莽,作为校园背景的军都山, 早已消隐于雾霾,不见踪影,唯剩晦黯,一派幽暝。市井喧阗,而宇宙沉寂无声,不怒而威,却又神秘莫测,似乎暗藏杀机,或者,心意阑珊,对这个自己一手创造 的人世早已失望至极,不再眷顾。不知为何,彼时彼刻,一刹那间,无意义感猛袭心头,顿感苍茫。同学诸君送我至校门口,一一道别。逮至返家,不觉其累,为母 校学子读书风炽高兴,欣然复揪然。少顷,始觉腹中空空,饥饿难耐,觅得半盒干果,一杯凉水,聊以充饥。
虽 说身体疲惫,精神却亢奋。回味各位同学的神态语气,仿佛倏然返归自己怔忡而忧郁、渴望却懵懂、狂野又压抑的青涩求学时光。毕竟,他们爱读书,不倦思索,一 代又一代的他们,也就是我们,读书思考,求知问道,并且士志于道,则薪火相继,风雨兼程,这人世才有光。光不被遮挡,普照大地,我们才好生聚繁育,踽踽前 行,行行复行行。
说到底,朋友,什么人与动物的区别,还不就是人有书,动物没有书,仅此而已。
数 日后,徐恒君发来座谈现场录音记录稿,长近三万字,望我审订后发布。我通读一过,既感思路尚欠连贯,枝蔓芜杂,而以我对于作文之一贯态度,复认文字粗粝, 有待打磨。否则,宁肯藏诸箱底,或者,掷诸清流。更主要的是,深感言犹未尽,意有郁积,乃有增订扩写的念头。因此,相约以五万字篇幅了事,完工后再交稿发 布。不料动手下来,断断续续,锱积铢累,迄而至今,一年间,竟逾十万言。赶紧杀青,作此小引,说明来龙去脉,略申心心念念。至此,基本上,在当日实录的基 础上,就这一主题而言,把想说的话都说了,说完了也就安心了。
是啊,读书为求心安,心安理得,日子好过,而且,有望过得顺畅。岁月流转,春去秋来,转眼霜鬓,人生不过如斯。
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拟 定的读者不是别人,还是徐恒们,母校的学弟学妹。但也不限于他们,实望有更为广大的人群,特别是法科青年学子。如此定位,就在于这是一个基于私人经历的谈 话,面对的是晚辈,亲密而又公开。因其亲密,故有校友之间相视一笑而于心莫逆者也。许多事,特别是情感,常常只适合在小圈子里分享,甚至只能私心忖度,私 情授受。一意徘徊,两情缱绻,此乃人情之常。因其公开,或者,公共性,则事涉广大,情牵家国,论题必然溢出任何规划,更非简单钳口就能禁绝。
图为“番薯会文化沙龙”现场壹
总 体以观,谈天说地,指东打西,这“校园”与“家园”的大背景难逃“现代中国的立国进程”,一个中国历史两千年间最大规模的大转型时代。对此进行“法意思 考”,概予“文明叙事”,在将法意与文明连贯穿插中通盘观照,是自己的专业行当,不得不为,也是竭力尽心、知不可而为之的自我修为。读书人处此时世与时 势,此为作业,更是担当。而透露的心思,指向的愿景,还是“我们的祖国是花园”这一关乎应许之地的憧憬,也是对于它的社会工程意义的提示,更是期盼历经无 数牺牲,——“最后的牺牲”,如周林刚博士所言——以开始一个“结束的开始”与结束一个“开端的结束”,而成全吾土吾族这接近两百年的大转型艰难时世。
凡 此十万言,成一小册,概分十一节。其间,大致理路是,从一己生活世界的现象和经历入手,渐次扩展,追溯和复述曾经的学思历程,以觇其时代背景,从而,在分 析与理述具体理论作业之际,反思赋予其时代意义的公共形态,特别是体制之源自时代并构成了时代的交叠情形。盖因既生世间,身心羁縻,性命所在,随波逐流, 逃脱不得,讨活法,要说法,则一己私性生活可能展示公共进程,凡人小事的涓滴水珠当能折射时代大潮的浩瀚澎湃。无论有幸寄身平常世态,获享辛勤劳作、安宁 生活的生趣,还是不幸置身风起云涌、翻天覆地之离乱,而颠沛流离,其一己身心,或卑微如蝼蚁,或闪耀如流星,就这样牵连于时势与时事,而于难舍难分中交相 呼应,在怡然自得或者仓皇失措中,上场走一趟,生死过一回。
毕 竟,在生活、生命之体验与表现的场域中,每个人都得体验生活,一生一世总在体验生活,想体验得体验,不想体验也得体验。这是此间凡尘的属人天命。说到底, 我们在德性上蔚为目的,历史而言却是工具。是的,工具,一种不折不扣、实实在在的历史的工具而已。但是,表现生活,乃至于表达生命,竟至于创造生命,则为 一种秉赋和特权,从而,是一种责任。这是挣扎凡尘而反求诸己的属己人心。正是这一表现,历史的工具挣脱了客体命定,超迈而为历史的目的。从而,命者性也, 心者行也,天意从来不可知,则尽心践履,恪尽其性,是为人也。而且,惟其如此,才能摆脱工具的命运,而获享历史之目的的性命定在。
朋友,生死两头,天地之间,你我小命一条,挣扎,还是挣扎,除此之外,还能有什么法子吗?!
其 实,你和我,你们和我们,红男绿女,凡夫俗子,不论蓬头垢面还是油光水滑,还不都是被决绝地抛到这个人世的嘛!既来之,则安之,无法逃避,只得活下来,力 争活好,活出尊严,则体验之际善予表现,从而,借由表现而返身回顾,端详来路,才有望看清去路。进而,尊德性而道问学,天助自助,照顾好生活与身体,不枉 此生命与心灵。转进一层,人生一世,草长一春,苦为常态,乐是插曲,其间辗转,体验抑或表现,保守还是创造,端赖一个熬字,而所谓人类的责任与尊严,起承 转合,全在此间一念,熬得住,并且,熬过来了。还真的就熬过来了。
这 不仅是一个生存论命题,讲述着真实的生命过程,道尽古今人性。而且,也是实践理性的自觉内省,更是那个叫做生命政治的自我道义定位之命门所在。因而,记 忆,不仅借由记忆进行反思,并且对于记忆进行反思,对于记忆之反思进行反思,是此天命人心的征象,更是此不绝如缕之一脉横绝天下而照拂人世者也。因此,它 是一个在默然自省中爆发的轰轰烈烈的对话过程,也就是一种绚烂而质朴的公共表现手段。对思想进行思想,给人间以人间性,让存在由此获得存在性。经此过程, 借此手段,我们于回顾既往中温暖了当下,而庶几保持人性,进而,克勤克俭,戒慎戒惧,惟精惟一,克爱克威,才有望提澌人性。
至少,避免人世堕入暗夜,阻止人性蜕落成兽性,而维持这个人世生计的基本条件。
在此,无需刻意人为,但须时时用功,对于这个“吾未见好德如好色者也”之物种,总是难事,却是好事,终归是必修课业。
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也 就因此,公共进程及其时代大潮是如何影响一己身家性命的,它们对于置此时空的渺小个体的应对措置又是如何评判回应的,关乎的是他们的身家性命,而折射的则 是它们的德性与绩能,尤其拷问着它们的政治诚意。毕竟,任何公共进程,特别是旨在管理暴力而铺陈权力网络的活动,缔结的是统治与被统治的关系,讲述的是一 个命令与服从的故事,道出了浮华人世面相之下的真实人际处境。此间无奈,悲辛交加,中外莫分,古今皆然。而在这个群居的社会物种群落,它们均指向个体及其 家庭,其知行,其身心,其祸福。饮食男女,必得承受生命之重。因而,这个主要以政制与政治为核心的公共进程,既以他们和它们为纽扣,最终均将落实到具体人 头,势必反映并影响着千千万万渺小个体的生活方式,其柴米油盐,其安危利病,其劳生息死。如此这般,则敌我公私、主权归属与和平的至上德性,以及政治决断 及其例外状态,遂成吾人思之所向,虑之所在,更是惧之缘由。人就是这么个东西,好歹一笔糊涂账,不加小心怎么行。因而,就现时代情形而言,它特别迫使我们 的体验与表现、记忆及其反思,必须时刻指向公共进程,特别是对于权力支配关系的组成与运作永保怵惕,以普世法度规范之,借文明规度涵养之。
图为许章润老师倾听学生发问贰
正 是在此,如果说哲学家们创造了人渴望善这一观念,而人类确实展现了对于善的不可遏止的渴望及其责任概念,并且,“天生德于予”,硬语盘空,赋予了这个物种 以尊严,从而,映照着并且砥砺了人类历史遂成一个不断趋向善好的光明进程,那么,正如现代世界已然表明的,至少自法国大革命开始,人类记忆便已赋予政治变 革是正常状态的观念以及主权在民的思想以合法性。因而,探讨人类群居生活之不得不然与可欲可能,反思全体公民政治上和平共处的法政形式与文明时空,落实其 在地性思考并赋予其普世性品格,是包括华夏心智在内的一切人类心智之天道性命所在,更是借由实践理性而砥砺成型的人类德性之成仁取义,当然而必然的,就是 这个叫做知识分子的特定劳工阶层的永恒使命。就此时此地而言,这也是他们的宿命。如此这般,苦乐一体,悲辛交集,抢也抢不到,躲也躲不掉,何乐而不为。
本文立意在此,戮力于此,期盼与憧憬悉数指向于此,面对三五莘莘学子,三致其意,三致其意,三致其意矣。
当 日座谈,区区人到中年,而在座诸君二十出头,彼此齿德相差三十年,正好一个世代。料有隔阂,却终究沟通无碍。“犹记得,当年深隐,门掩两三株”,心意辗 转,师生分享着共同的问题意识、时代焦虑和理论抱负。思之所向,情之所托,志之所寄,竟然一般无二,说明我们真的同在一个时代,共在一个历史节点。而这个 时代的欣然与颓然,这个历史节点之前因与后果,你们和我们的期望与绝望,经天行地,惊天动地,流水行云,同样非人力所能遮蔽,亦非政治神学与政治诗学竟可 掩饰或者扭曲。同在于共在,共在是因为同在,一同构织起这个叫做时代的魔幻时空。而所有的时代,总是特定的时代,一种此在,牵连于彼在。此在无情,彼在有 情;同在为虚,共在为实。而不论有情还是无情,虚伪抑或真实,我们,还是我们,只能承受,迎面上,熬下去,将此在转接于彼在,化虚伪为真实,为了那个更好 的人间,一种别样的可能性,汲汲惶惶,战战兢兢,守先待后,慎终追远。
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当 日座谈,区区人到中年,而在座诸君二十出头,彼此齿德相差三十年,正好一个世代。料有隔阂,却终究沟通无碍。“犹记得,当年深隐,门掩两三株”,心意辗 转,师生分享着共同的问题意识、时代焦虑和理论抱负。思之所向,情之所托,志之所寄,竟然一般无二,说明我们真的同在一个时代,共在一个历史节点。而这个 时代的欣然与颓然,这个历史节点之前因与后果,你们和我们的期望与绝望,经天行地,惊天动地,流水行云,同样非人力所能遮蔽,亦非政治神学与政治诗学竟可 掩饰或者扭曲。同在于共在,共在是因为同在,一同构织起这个叫做时代的魔幻时空。而所有的时代,总是特定的时代,一种此在,牵连于彼在。此在无情,彼在有 情;同在为虚,共在为实。而不论有情还是无情,虚伪抑或真实,我们,还是我们,只能承受,迎面上,熬下去,将此在转接于彼在,化虚伪为真实,为了那个更好 的人间,一种别样的可能性,汲汲惶惶,战战兢兢,守先待后,慎终追远。
舍乎此,请问,还有什么办法。要是连这都犯忌,钳口,岂非欺人太甚。
换 言之,有意义的时间段落所表征的历史体系及其历史意识,经由阅读思考的体验与表现,通过记忆及其反思,而积淀于心智,凝结成心性。从而,将古今一线牵连, 融群己两忘物我,积此在与彼在而共在,最终凸显的是一个叫做我与我们的活脱脱当下。我在历史中,也就是在一个特定的漫长时间所含育造化的词与意的体系中, 一个由摆不脱的生死轮回之链条所构成的生生不息的长河大波中,我固然是我,我更成了我们。
图为许老师就学生提问发言叁
此时此刻,我岂能流离失所四处漂泊,我岂能没有校园与家园,我岂能堕失心气与心志。
家国天下,世道人心,哦,这修辞老态龙钟而常说常新,无限缥缈却厚实沉重,默然无声、木讷刚毅可又长歌当哭、振聋发聩。
教书匠。洪荒。老人浑浊的双瞳映照着地球的失眠。
本 文据现场记录稿增订,考虑到拟定言说对象的特殊性,修订之际特地增加脚注若干,以助理解正文。一文既成,即将接受读者检验,除开感谢当日组织与参加座谈讨 论提问的同学诸君,特别是徐恒君,以及费力劳心的责编,还要预先感谢读者诸君。古之学者为己,今之学者为人,你们读书,包括可能阅读本文,这书写才有意 义,这纸上汉字才可能蔚为灵媒,看似纷繁而实则枯燥的生活世界,或可登堂入室,由此为我和我们编织出一个五彩缤纷的意义世界。 此间惆怅,辞与物,意与义,让我们免于有死性的恐惧,托肉体于身体,将身体转化为生命,则冬雷夏雪,情天恨海,半窗月,天涯旅,大化流行,生生不息。 朋友,天人之际,生死两头,小命一条,所谓生趣,本无多少,点滴在此,而沧浪濯水,无需铺陈,不待人谋。 生趣此在,爱至上。 章润谨志孔诞两千五百六十七年于故河道旁
此间惆怅,辞与物,意与义,让我们免于有死性的恐惧,托肉体于身体,将身体转化为生命,则冬雷夏雪,情天恨海,半窗月,天涯旅,大化流行,生生不息。
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本 文据现场记录稿增订,考虑到拟定言说对象的特殊性,修订之际特地增加脚注若干,以助理解正文。一文既成,即将接受读者检验,除开感谢当日组织与参加座谈讨 论提问的同学诸君,特别是徐恒君,以及费力劳心的责编,还要预先感谢读者诸君。古之学者为己,今之学者为人,你们读书,包括可能阅读本文,这书写才有意 义,这纸上汉字才可能蔚为灵媒,看似纷繁而实则枯燥的生活世界,或可登堂入室,由此为我和我们编织出一个五彩缤纷的意义世界。 此间惆怅,辞与物,意与义,让我们免于有死性的恐惧,托肉体于身体,将身体转化为生命,则冬雷夏雪,情天恨海,半窗月,天涯旅,大化流行,生生不息。 朋友,天人之际,生死两头,小命一条,所谓生趣,本无多少,点滴在此,而沧浪濯水,无需铺陈,不待人谋。 生趣此在,爱至上。 章润谨志孔诞两千五百六十七年于故河道旁
此间惆怅,辞与物,意与义,让我们免于有死性的恐惧,托肉体于身体,将身体转化为生命,则冬雷夏雪,情天恨海,半窗月,天涯旅,大化流行,生生不息。
朋友,天人之际,生死两头,小命一条,所谓生趣,本无多少,点滴在此,而沧浪濯水,无需铺陈,不待人谋。
生趣此在,爱至上。 章润谨志孔诞两千五百六十七年于故河道旁
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