Our Country’s Transformation Of Legal Thoughts From Traditional To Modern

Entering the new century, Chinese society are experiencing the big huge among politics,economy and culture. The essay takes the transformation from "Combination of courtesy andlaw" to the "Governance of virtue and law" as the starting point, and focuses on the point ofview on the transformation of the Chinese traditional legal thoughts. To analyze the distinctand contact between the "Combination of courtesy and law" and "Governance of virtue andlaw" with the necessity of the transformation of the Chinese traditional legal thoughts. Todiscuss the way of realizing the "Governance of virtue and law" and solve how to combineour country’s traditional legal thoughts with our country’s current situation. To realize thetransformation of our country’s modern legal thoughts and look for a socialism legal way tosuit our country’s current situation.The Chinese traditional legal thought is broad and profound. The ancient "Combinationof courtesy and law" is one of the distinctive features in Chinese legal system. It is the maincontext of legal system development in the whole feudal society and the important feature ofChinese legal thoughts. Nowadays the "Governance of virtue and law" is the thought of rulingthe country by virtue and law, embodying the Chinese advanced culture direction, which isthe deeper development of our Party’s governing theory and scientific practice conclusion,with the governing conception of the urgent need of realizing the long lasting nationalsecurity. The Chinese traditional legal thoughts “Combination of courtesy and law” havecertain historical origin with "Governance of virtue and law". Ancient Chinese think highly ofusing moral to safeguard the society, which has the same line relationship with ruling countryby virtue nowadays. Ruling country by virtue could not be realized without the protect of law.Therefore, ancient Chinese society takes law as the auxiliary status with the fixed thought of"Combination of courtesy and law" which also has certain historical contact with the"Governance of virtue and law". But "Combination of courtesy and law" and "Governance ofvirtue and law" have both active and negative influences. Thus we need get rid of thedisadvantage of the traditional legal thoughts and learn and develop the advantage. So as torealize the transformation from the "Combination of courtesy and law" to "Governance ofvirtue and law" by various ways such as economy, mind and organization.The essay contains four parts. The first part is to introduce the basic definition andhistorical significance of "Combination of courtesy and law" and "Governance of virtue andlaw", seek for the origin of Chinese traditional legal thoughts and the transformation ofmodern legal thoughts. The second part describes the transformation from "Combination of courtesy and law" to "Governance of virtue and law" and mainly analyze their distinct andcontact. The third part discusses the necessity of the transformation and analyzes our country’scurrent legal-governing process with the existing problem and challenges. The fourth partmainly seeks for the ways of realizing "Governance of virtue and law", to realize the greatrejuvenation of Chinese nation and socialism society by legal system. I just mention someidea and suggest in the essay and hope it would be a little helpful to the realization socialismgovernment by law society and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation...