Civil Society and Legal Values to Ensure Decent Standard of Personality Life-Activity

Abstract

Introduction. The civil society, the legal values, the law-governed state have always been within the scope of interest of many scientists, which indicates the relevance of this range of issues. Each state in the process of its formation and evolution forms the legal values under the influence of various conditions and factors (political, socio-economic, cultural and spiritual, etc.). The level of legal culture directly depends on the moral fundamentals of society and personality. The legal system of any state is based on the most important principles, the fundamental legal values. However, despite the majority of people are conscious of the importance of the legal reality development, the issue of the legal values influence on functioning of the civil society and on ensuring the decent standard of a person’s life-activity remains insufficiently investigated. The correlation and interconnection of the legal values with the life-activity of the civil society and personality become reality and constant demand in the most important spheres of public and private life. In practice this means that favorable conditions are getting ripe for every person and citizen to materialize the certain life aspirations, interests, needs, natural and inalienable rights and freedoms. The article substantiates the assertion that favorable prerequisites for discovery, recognition and implementation of the legal values in the fundamental social relations, the successful ordering of which is responsible for the full-fledged life-activity of a person and a citizen, can be formed only under condition of the civil society functioning and evolving. The interrelation is traced between the exercise of natural and inalienable rights and freedoms and the processes of forming conditions for a particular personality to acquire its decent lifestyle, which is manifested in all spheres of its entrepreneurial, social, cultural, educational and other life- activities. The aim of the study is to identify the potential of the legal values influence on functioning of the civil society and on ensuring the decent standard of personality life-activity.Materials and Methods. The civil society and the legal values in the context of ensuring the decent standard of personality life-activity are analysed. Particularly emphasized are the constitutional basis for integrating the legal values into the system of law, the regime of legal legitimacy and the reliable legal order ensuring a person’s and a citizen’s confidence in achieving the life goals determining the decent lifestyle. In the course of research, general scientific as well as special scientific methods have been used, more specifically the dialectic method of cognition, the method of system analysis, the axiological, the formally juridical, the comparative law and other methods.Results. The conclusion is made about the legal values potential as the force having efficient impact on functioning of the civil society and on the life-activity of each personality striving to ensure its decent lifestyle. The well-established and recognized legal values are the ideal accumulator to assign the legislative acts and law enforcement acts the content corresponding to the interests and life aspirations of the majority of the civil society members.Discussion and Conclusions. The problems in formation of the civil society in Russia are identified, including the insufficiently high level of legal consciousness and citizens’ legal culture. It is proposed to focus on the need to build up the efficiently functioning legal education and legal upbringing system. The practical significance of efficient interaction of the civil society institutions with the state authorities based on the use of the multifaceted potential of the legal system is noted.