如果说在80年代初,中国民法学还在“要不要制定民法”的争论中艰难开拓,那么,到了90年代初,中国的民法学者们已经开始为“制定什么样的民法”而上下求索。徐国栋的《民法基本原则解释——成文法局限性之克服》,就是其中的一个代表。这是一部从多学科的角度研究部门法问题的著作,对它的评介,除了取部门法的角度,还可以选择其他学科如法哲学、法历史学、法社会学、法经济学、比较法学等的角度。在这里,我拟侧重于法哲学方面。这不仅是因为法哲学同民法学有着天然的亲缘关系,而且是因为对法学问题的思辨能力是衡量一门法学学科发展水平的重要尺度。本书从法哲学的角色对民法的一些基本理论问题进行了思考和阐释,因此它可以称作一部民法哲学专著。全书共有五章,可分为两大部分。前两章为第一部分,是关于民法基本原则的一般理论和规则 If we say that in the early 1980s China’s civil law still faced a difficult opening up in the debate about whether to enact civil law, then by the early 1990s the Chinese civil law scholars had begun to “develop what kind of civil law” And search from top to bottom. Xu Guodong’s “Interpretation of Fundamental Principles of Civil Law - Overcoming Limitations of Written Law” is one of them. This is a book dealing with the issue of departmental law from the perspective of multidisciplinary studies. The evaluation of it, in addition to taking departmental law, can also select other disciplines such as legal philosophy, legal history, sociology of law, law and economics, comparative Law and other perspectives. Here, I intend to focus on legal philosophy. This is not only because natural law has a natural affinity with civil law, but also because the ability to think of law is an important measure of the level of development of a law discipline. The book from the role of legal philosophy of civil law some of the basic theoretical issues for reflection and interpretation, so it can be called a civil law philosophy monographs. The book consists of five chapters, can be divided into two parts. The first two chapters for the first part, is about the basic principles of civil law, the general theory and rules