The True, Good, and Beautiful in Law (A Preliminary Exploration of Legal Aesthetics)

Author: Lu Shilun, Editor-in-Chief
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Publishing Date: 2004-07-01
Features: This book is a significant achievement that emerged in the field of Chinese jurisprudence research during the 2003-2004 academic year. Unlike various traditional research methods, this book explores and develops a new line of thinking—approaching "law" through the principles of beauty, constructing a legal thinking paradigm with an aesthetic perspective. With its rich academic resources and vividly presented legal reasoning, the book is sure to offer substantial insights. In the three-dimensional construction of law's truth, goodness, and beauty, "the truth of law" is revealed through the external characteristics of law, uncovering its objective patterns in operation; "the goodness of law" is revealed through universal human nature, uncovering its subjective value in people's hearts; and "the beauty of law" is revealed in the process of coordination between objective and subjective law, showcasing its aesthetic significance and achieving an overall shaping of law that is "people-centered" and ultimately cares for humanity. Although the legal culture initially harbored the elements of truth, goodness, and beauty, they gradually became a reality through the long evolution of social civilization and underwent intense struggles against falsehood, evil, and ugliness, gradually maturing in the process. This is no easy task, requiring the unrelenting, 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 inevitable path for human society and civilization, and it is unstoppable.