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

Author: edited by Lü Shilun
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
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, it explores and develops a new line of thinking—approaching "law" from the perspective of aesthetic principles, constructing a legal thinking paradigm with an aesthetic viewpoint. The book is rich in academic materials and features vivid, thought-provoking insights, ensuring readers gain significant knowledge. In the three-dimensional construction of the truth, goodness, and beauty of law, "the truth of law" is revealed through the external characteristics of law, demonstrating its objective regularities in operation; "the goodness of law" is revealed through universal human nature, highlighting its subjective value in people's hearts; and "the beauty of law" is revealed in the harmonious coordination between objective and subjective law, showcasing its aesthetic significance and achieving the holistic shaping of law that is "people-centered" and ultimately cares for humanity. Although the legal culture initially harbored elements of truth, goodness, and beauty, they gradually became a reality through the long evolution of social civilization and faced intense struggles against falsehood, evil, and ugliness, gradually maturing in the process. This is no easy task, requiring the relentless, arduous efforts of generations to achieve. However, as thousands of years of history have proven and continues to prove, the ideal of beautiful law is the inevitable path for human society and civilization, an unstoppable force.