The True, Good, and Beautiful in Law: An Initial Exploration of Legal Aesthetics

Author: Lü Shilun, Editor-in-Chief
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Publishing Date: 2004-08-01
Features: This book is an important achievement that emerged in the field of Chinese jurisprudence research during the 2003-2004 academic year. Unlike various traditional research methods, this book explores ands a new line of thinking—approaching "law" from the perspective of aesthetic principles, constructing a legal thinking paradigm with an aesthetic lens. The book is rich in academic materials and features vivid examples, ensuring that readers will gain a great deal. In the three-dimensional construction of the truth, goodness, and beauty of law, "the truth of law" is revealed through the various external forms of law, demonstrating the objective laws governing its operation; "the goodness of law" is revealed through universal human nature, highlighting the subjective value of law in people's hearts; and "the beauty of law" is revealed in the process of coordination between objective and subjective law, showcasing the aesthetic significance of law and achieving an overall shaping of law that is "people-centered" and ultimately cares for humanity. Although the legal culture initially contained the elements of truth, goodness, and beauty, they gradually became a reality through the long evolution of social civilization and underwent intense confrontation with falsehood, evil, and ugliness, gradually maturing. This is no easy task and requires the unremitting, arduous efforts of generations. However, as thousands of years of history have proven and continues to prove, the ideal of a beautiful law is the necessary path for human society and civilization, and it is unstoppable.