The dialectic of legality in modern political and legal thought

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The article examines the problems of the dialectic of legality, which serves as an appropriate basis for understanding and interpreting the combination of abstract semantic and real-material (figurative) characteristics in it. This approach introduces significant clarifications to the idea of legality as a fundamental legal idea, which at different levels of its hierarchy (internal and external) is accompanied by important points and relevant features. Based on the achievements of the Russian philosophical tradition, the author demonstrates the possibilities of considering legality as an idea in terms of its expression in reality and the influence of various dominants of an internal and external nature. This allows us to determine the role of schematism, illustrativeness, as well as the possibility of achieving a balanced ratio of abstract semantic and figurative aspects of legality. The proposed understanding of the dialectic of legality makes it possible to significantly review the effectiveness and cognitive potential of various interpretations of the idea of legality in the political and legal doctrines of the past and present, to clarify the originality and place of the corresponding interpretations in the evolution of ideas about basic legal issues such as legality, law and order, the legal system, etc. The article also shows that current trends in the analysis of legality in foreign literature focus on issues that have already taken place in legal studies of the past, especially in Russian philosophical and legal literature.

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Artyom A. Savenkov

Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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Email: artem.199417@yandex.ru

PhD in Law, Director of Legal and Corporate Development, NASK JSC, Post-Doctoral Student

Russian Federation, 10 Znamenka str., 119019 Moscow

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