现代文明是通过法律维护,解决问题的文明,文明依赖于法律观念的威力。但是,很少有人能够正确理解法律,他们把法律看作是万能的,表现出严重过分法规化的倾向。如何解决法律理性和人本感性之间的矛盾和争议,正是现代社会发展的题中之意。本文分析了法律的理性,同时呼唤人文精神,现代化应当是在法律适度控制下的有人文精神、关怀的现代化。 Modern civilization is a civilization that maintains and resolves problems through law, and civilization depends on the power of legal concepts. However, few people can correctly understand the law. They view the law as omnipotent and show a tendency of being overly regulated. How to solve the contradictions and controversies between legal rationality and human nature is exactly the meaning of the question in the development of modern society. This article analyzes the rationality of law, and at the same time, it calls for the humane spirit. Modernization should be the modernization of humane spirit and care under the moderate control of law.