法律理性化是西方法律文明从古希腊以来一以贯之的传统。当代法治国家正当程序原则的普遍化和对后现代法学之“元话语衰落”的追问, 表明古典自然法学派的实体理性思想经过19世纪末和20世纪后半叶的两次挑战, 正在出现某种更高层次的理性回归。马克思主义关于自由人联合体及人类解放的思想, 从另一个侧面深化了法律理性, 是我国法制建设的旗帜。中国法制现代化的根本方向即法治理性化, 其实质是在建设有中国特色社会主义的过程中, 通过确立基本的法律理性原则, 实现正当程序的理性化, 以体现马克思主义关于自由人联合体和人类解放的伟大理想。

The rationalization of law is a constant tradition of Western law civilization since ancient Greece. With the universalization of the justice procedure principle in contemporary legal states and the questioning to the "member parole decay" about post- modern jurisprudence, the substantial logos advocated by the classical school of natural law is returning to a logos at a much higher level after the two challenges which appeared in the end of 19th century and in the second half of 20th century. The Marxist thoughts about the union of free persons and the emancipation of human beings, which is the banner for building our legal system, has deepened the law logos from the other side. The fundamental orientation of China's legal modernization is nothing but the rule of rationalized law, and its essence consists in realizing the rationalization of just procedure by means of setting up basic principles of law logos in the course of building our socialism with Chinese characteristics, thus embodying the great Marxist ideal of free human union and human emancipation.