Promising developments of domestic legal science on legal awareness

Abstract

This article focuses on the problem of legal consciousness, which is one of the most difficult in the theory of law and whose origins come from antiquity. Based on historical, economic, political, cultural and religious factors, at each stage of development, thinkers tried to give their understanding and definition of law. Each of the concepts and theories had certain positive aspects and disadvantage, revealing one or another side of such a multifaceted phenomenon as law. Modern scientists, applying new methodological techniques and the latest achievements of the humanities and natural sciences, the needs of society, continue to identify new aspects of law in order to better understand it and effectively regulate relations between people. The urgency of the outlined issue is enhanced by the active reforms in Ukraine, which requires the research of future trends in legal consciousness. Analysis of modern scientific trends in the legal consciousness indicates a gradual departure from the positivist types of legal consciousness and orientation to human as the highest social value. Ukrainian researchers pay attention to the continuity of the right to life, with the objective needs of people and their harmonious development. Therefore, modern legal consciousness presupposes compliance of legally established normative legal acts with natural law. Pluralism of scientific theories of legal consciousness makes possible to explore the essential features of law that are necessary for the establishment of universal values, to raise to a qualitatively new level the legal content of human rights and freedoms, to develop and implement a real mechanism for their protection. Modern science of law has to provide a gradual combination of positive features of all theories of legal consciousness, which will include the consideration of law as an integral, but multifaceted social phenomenon. It is pointed out that the integrative approach is not final in solving the problem of legal consciousness. Trends and prospects of modern jurisprudence in the field of legal consciousness are to identify the most rational and logical theories to determine the essence of law, which will contribute to a more complete and comprehensive research of such a multifaceted and complex phenomenon as law, which will constantly require rethinking. Keywords: legal consciousness, interpretation of legal consciousness, development of national legal science, positivist approach to legal consciousness, integrative approach to legal consciousness.