创造法律世界的本体论拟制
作者简介:俞海涛,上海社会科学院法学研究所助理研究员 (上海 200020)。
摘要: 目前法学研究较少关注法律概念和法律存在,法律拟制不仅有方法论意义,还有本体论意义,可以用来阐释法律概念和法律存在的性质。唯名论认为拟制体是需还原为实存体的占位符,否认拟制体的真实存在,忽略了法律概念的内在面向。道德(法律)虚构主义认为道德(法律)概念所指称的“古怪实体”并不存在,不过基于功用目的,需要假装相信其存在。唯名论和道德(法律)虚构主义都持一种单一的物质事实观,忽视了社会事实和制度事实的存在。制度法学在借鉴社会事实建构论的基础上,提出了法律存在是一种制度事实的本体论建议。从自然事实到制度事实是一个拟制的过程,制度事实具有拟制的结构,“存在的类推(拟制)”学说也为此提供了一种佐证。法律拟制创造了法律概念所指称的包括法律主体、客体、行为、事件等的法律世界。
The Ontological Fiction That Creates the Legal World
Abstract: Currently, legal research pays little attention to legal concepts and legal existence. Legal fiction not only has methodological significance but also ontological meaning, which can be used to explain the nature of legal concepts and legal existence. Nominalism holds that fictitious entities are placeholders that need to be reduced to real entities, denying the real existence of fictitious entities and ignoring the intrinsic dimension of legal concepts. Moral (legal) fictionalism argues that the "queer entities" referred to by moral (legal) concepts do not exist, but for functional purposes, it is necessary to pretend to believe in their existence. Both nominalism and moral (legal) fictionalism adhere to a single view of material facts, ignoring the existence of social facts and institutional facts. Institutional legal theory, drawing on the constructivist theory of social facts, proposes an ontological proposition that legal existence is a form of institutional fact. The transition from brute facts to institutional facts is a process of fiction, and institutional facts have a fictional structure. The doctrine of "analogy (fiction) of existence" also provides evidence for this. Legal fiction creates the legal world referred to by legal concepts, including legal subjects, objects, acts, and events.