Актуальность эмоциональной психологии в понимании права

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Abstract: The article describes Leon Petrazycki's original psychology theory of understanding of law and observes the proofs of actuality of his theory for contemporary conditions of the changing forms of state society .Keywords: history of law, understanding the law, evolution of forms of law, behaviour motivation, psychology approach to understand the law . T here is an important Russian scholar in the science of law his-tory, the author of the psychology approach to understanding the law which explains the motivation of human behaviour . The theory of Leon Petrazycki (1867—1931) is related from the start with the author's biography . He proved by the way he lived his whole life that if one realizes the world's imperfection in certain fields one should work to improve them . Petrzycki changed from the medicine faculty to law during his studies at Kiev University . Then in Berlin he published a significant work in German concerning joint stock company dividends .Leon Petrazycki was a lecturer for St Petersburg Women's History and Literature Courses and for 20 years was Professor of the Philosophy of Law at St Petersburg University . He played an important role in the opposition Constitutional Democratic Party and was elected to the ill-fated First Duma (Russian parliament during the monarchy period) . For his opposition activity he was convicted and sentenced to three months in prison . His awareness of socialist ideas enabled him to explain the existence of society without positive (written) law, with the idea that law came into the world earlier than the state .The new bolshevik politicians perverted his explication . Petrazycki had to leave the country and became the first Professor of Sociology at Warsaw University . In 1931 he committed suicide .Petrazycki wrote mostly in Russian although his early works were in German . There is no full translation of his works and his latest essays in Polish were lost . For European and English speaking people his theory is known from the reviews of critical researchers published in the middle of the twentieth century . J . Gorecki at