Law is the science of law. As a mandatory norm of society, the direct purpose of law is to maintain social order and realize social justice through the construction and maintenance of order. Jurisprudence as the research object of law, its core lies in the study of order and justice, that is, the study of order and justice. ?
Law is a general category offered by universities all over the world, and it is also one of the top ten discipline systems of China University, including four main components: law, politics, public security and sociology. In society, many people are used to calling law major as law major.
In China, legal thought originated from legalist philosophy in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The word "law" was called "the study of criminal names" in the pre-Qin period of China, and it didn't begin to have the name "the study of law" until the Han Dynasty. In the west, the ancient Roman jurist Ulpia Pianu defined the word "law" as: the concept of affairs between man and God, the study of justice and injustice.
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Etymology of law
1, the Latin word "law" Jurisprudentia appeared at least in the Roman Republic of China at the end of the 3rd century BC, which means systematic and organized legal knowledge and legal knowledge.
Ancient Roman jurists once gave a classic definition of "law": "law is the knowledge of things about god and man; This is a science about justice and injustice. " German, French, English and Spanish have all developed their own words referring to "law" on the basis of jurisprudence, and their contents are constantly enriched and their meanings are becoming more and more profound.
2. The knowledge about legal issues was called "the art of criminal names" or "the study of criminal names" in the pre-Qin period of China. According to textual research, although the word "Fa" officially appeared after the establishment of "Doctor of Law" in Wei Mingdi, the study of "Fa" has existed since the Han Dynasty, mainly to annotate existing laws.
The word "jurisprudence" in ancient China first appeared in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. However, the meaning of the word "jurisprudence" used at that time was still close to "jurisprudence". The word "law" in ancient China is quite different from the concept of "law" in modern western countries.
3. The word "Fa" in modern Chinese was first introduced from Japan. 1868 used Japanese jurist Jin Tian Zhen Dao to translate English words such as jurisprudence, law and German Rechtswissenschaft for the first time, and gave a detailed explanation. This word was introduced into China around the Reform Movement of 1898.
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