Abstract
The basis of modern legal system is the legal individual, which is born in Western civilization and extended to other civilizations. Today, Chinese civilization has produced many kinds of laws, but almost all of the Chinese still can not completely understand the meaning of legal individual and why legal individual has to tell the truth. So, modern Chinese society can not receive the Western laws and plant it in China successfully. This paper tries to explain the process of the birth of Western legal individual, by interpreting the social thought of Charles Taylor. Because of the interaction between designative language with expressive language in the development of the Western civilization, legal individual can tell the truth, not only articulating the innate self's rational thinking, but also her or his desires. While Chinese can really understand the meaning of legal individual, who can tell the truth, they can produce the sense of legal practice and believe the law.
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