Socio-Cultural Foundations of the National Philosophy of Law: History and Modernity

Abstract

The article reveals the socio-cultural foundations of the national philosophy of law, which are considered in the historical and modern civilizational aspect. The role of law is analyzed in social and cultural programs of social development. It is emphasized that the special importance in the conditions of modern modernization of state and public relations is the understanding of the possibilities and boundaries of the implementation of the existing universal meanings and principles of the organization. It is emphasized relations and their adaptation to modern processes. Modernization is considered as a factor of social development of society, as a way to improve social institutions and relations. The article also focuses on the problem of global modernization and inclusion of local cultures. The article focuses on the problem of adaptation of traditional societies to the modern model of global modernization. The attention focuses on the fact that modern social projects and concepts should move from the concept of «global community» to the understanding of new factors of social life and form new ideas about the conditions of human life in the planetary world.The article reveals the principle of correlation between the philosophy of law and social philosophy. Domestic philosophy of law, is based on philosophical ethics. It is presented in the article as a «normative area of knowledge», and transformed into a system of norms (law and morality) regulations and obligations of public life. It is also emphasized that the main task of the modern philosophy of law is to determine the conceptual unity of historical and modern understanding of the nature of the socio-political world and ways of its knowledge, based on the dialectic of complementarity. The practical task of the modern philosophy of law is to substantiate and concretize the ideology of social life, which assumes the unity of law, politics and morality. It is also proved that in the context of globalization the modern philosophy of law meets the challenges that actualizes the process of socio-political integration and modernization.