Historiosophy of Law by Pamfil Yurkevych

Abstract

Pamfil Yurkevych is one of the most outstanding Ukrainian philosophers. Despite the fact that his creative work is relatively small, he did not create a coherent universal philosophical system, his views on philosophy were very original and left a noticeable mark in the history of philosophy. His original teaching of the philosophy of the heart was ahead of modernity in certain directions and is of essential importance for philosophical knowledge even today. The thinker paid considerable attention to the problems of philosophy of law and philosophy of history. As a result, his views on the philosophy of the history of law were original and distinctive. Being on the positions of natural and legal scientists, Yurkevych, at the same time, recognized the existence of regularities in the historical process. Moreover, he saw the history of society, first of all, the history of law as the essence of the historical process. It is the understanding of the law Yurkevych based on the combination of historical (i.e. empiric) and philosophical (theoretical, i.e. logical). In their balance is an important methodological prerequisite for research of historical and legal phenomena and processes. To understand the essence of the law in the context of its historical development, Yurkevych applied elements of the integrative approach, which has developed already in the philosophy of the law of the next, twentieth century. This integration consists in taking into account not only social laws, but also individual and social psychology. The above-mentioned aspects did not override the ideological, natural-legal basis of understanding of the law according to the "philosophy of the heart" P. Yurkevych, and supplemented and enriched it.