Dialectics of legal understanding: from the «idea of law» to its objectification
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https://doi.org/10.17308/law/1995-5502/2025/3/49-58Keywords:
legal understanding, concept, factors, type, objectification, transformation, legal practice, legal validityAbstract
The article actualizes the problem of embodiment of types of legal understanding in legal reality. The author believes that legal understanding as a creative activity to develop theoretical ideas about the essence of law fully achieves its goal only in the case of objectification, i. e. the acquisition of an external, objective form of existence by the «idea of law». Thus, the dialectics of legal understanding is revealed in the following sequence: from the thinking activity on the development of a concept expressing the essence of law, to its result – the creation of an integral concept of legal understanding, then – the embodiment of this concept in legal reality. The paper concludes that the dialectics of legal understanding reveals all new volumes of knowledge, which does not exclude the opposite, that is its (knowledge) degradation. It is natural to produce new types of legal understanding, transformation or elimination, filling them with newly discovered meanings. In this endless renewal, the objectification of the «idea of right» in legal reality is a necessary stage of verification of the viability of ideas about the essence of law.
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