The Conventional Nature of Legal Values

Authors

  • Alexey KLIMENKO Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia named after V. Ya. Kikot
  • Igor MAZUROV Smolensk State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v1i1.666

Keywords:

legal values, conventional values, socio-axiological approach to law, legal discourse, legal order, social classes

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of the nature of legal values, the solution of which is of fundamental importance for the construction of legal theories, in one way or another based on the category of “value”. The purpose of this article is to present and substantiate a theoretical model of legal values in the context of a socio-axiological approach to law, involving consideration of the conventional nature of legal values, as well as to characterize the structural and functional relationship of legal values with the legal order and legal culture.

When analyzing modern law, the authors use a socio-axiological approach to law, combining sociological and axiological methodology. At the same time, the authors proceed from a materialistic understanding of values. The article also uses general scientific and private scientific research methods.

The authors come to the conclusion that law within the framework of modern philosophical and legal analysis from the standpoint of the socio-axiological approach appears as a system of conventional values formed and transformed within the framework of legal discourse. Theoretical understanding of the conventional nature of such values provides an opportunity to consider many aspects of modern legal theory from a new perspective.

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Author Biographies

Alexey KLIMENKO , Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia named after V. Ya. Kikot

 PhD, Doctor of Science in Jurisprudence, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of the Theory of State and law of the Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia named after V. Ya. Kikot, Moscow, Russia. His areas of interest include the theory of state and law, the philosophy of law, the socio-axiological approach to law, and legal ideology. Klimenko is the author of 10 monographs and more than 120 scientific articles. Recent publications: “Marxist Foundations of Modern Philosophy of Law”, “Legal Values and Principles as the Substantive Basis of the Legislation of the Modern State”.

Igor MAZUROV, Smolensk State University

PhD in Jurisprudence, Associate Professor of the Department of State and Legal Disciplines Smolensk State University, Smolensk, Russia. His areas of interest include the theory of state and law, philosophy of law, theory of the claim. Mazurov is the author of 10 scientific articles. Recent publications: “The Nature and Content of Legal Claims as the Basis for Their Distinction, Classification and Determination of Species Characteristics”, “The Nature and Content of Legal Claims”.

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2021-12-15

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KLIMENKO , A., & MAZUROV, I. (2021). The Conventional Nature of Legal Values. WISDOM, 1(1), 98–110. https://doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v1i1.666