China News Service, Beijing, September 25 (Reporter Ying Ni) Sang Benqian, professor and dean of the Ocean University of China Law School's new book "A Brief History of Law: The Deep Logic of Human Institutional Civilization", recently published by Life, Reading, and New Knowledge Sanlian Publishing House publishing.
Since the development of modern society, a person is regulated and protected by law from birth to death. It is a main line that supports human civilization. No one can guarantee that he will not deal with the law in his entire life.
However, in the impression of most readers, the law is full of jargon, and the professional threshold is extremely high.
In this case, it is very necessary to remove the tangled branches covering the details and understand the deep logic of the law.
"A Brief History of Law: The Deep Logic of Human Institutional Civilization" tells the evolution history from the law of restitution to the complex legal system, in order to present the deep logic of law.
The so-called return law is the famous strategy in evolutionary game theory - "tit for tat".
If expressed in a mathematical formula, it is x=y, that is, stimulus=response, or input=output.
The law of restitution is an extremely simple algorithm, and all complex legal systems are variants of it, like lush branches and leaves bred from roots.
Photo courtesy of Sanlian Publishing House, Professor and Dean of the Law School of Ocean University of China, Sang Benqian
This book is a professional, rigorous, subversive and readable general legal work.
For ordinary readers, this book breaks the stereotype of ordinary "laymen" on the law, and helps people to understand the internal evolution process of the law and its relationship with real life from the daily familiar thinking logic; For professional readers with a background, this book breaks down the barriers between departmental laws. The author traces the origin of civil law, criminal law and other departmental laws to sort out the common laws behind them, and then summarizes a set of underlying logic to guide the law. People solve some problems that seemed difficult before, so as to better apply the law.
While teaching law, the book also discusses common-sense issues closely related to human daily life, such as market, politics, ecology, human nature, etc. The author cites literature, history, biology, ecology, economics, The knowledge of various disciplines such as engineering and logic has made a detailed analysis of the internal logic of human institutional civilization from the perspective of connection thinking and interdisciplinary.
Clarifying common sense can not only help readers broaden their horizons, but also present real problems in a way that returns to the basics.
The writing style of this book is very close to the people, but close to the people does not mean simple.
This is a hard book, and the reasoning is very dense. It is not difficult for readers to understand every part, but it will feel very brain-burning to read for an hour.
"What I removed was only the professional threshold, not the intellectual threshold." Sang Benqian said.
This attempt to break down the barriers of disciplines is very rare, and it provides a good model for the writing of popular reading materials in the current social sciences.
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