The highlights of the interwar legal thinking in the construction of the contemporary rule of law state

Abstract

Lately, the need to re-evaluate the axiological dimension of law and to reconsider the idea of the rule of law and democratic values has been increasingly emphasized, not only in the conditions of states with young democracies such as the Republic of Moldova. The radical transformations that post-Soviet states entered towards the end of the 20th century made them aspire to the establishment of societies in which the principles of the rule of law are not only enshrined in normative acts, but are also practiced. Thus, given the diversity of challenges facing contemporary states, the processes and crises that increasingly challenge democracy and the rule of law, we consider it appropriate to return to philosophical and legal thinking and to the determination of its valences in building the contemporary rule of law, highlighting its particular, specific and original character, which determines its place in the universal philosophical-legal thinking.