Law, science and other forms of world perception and methodology: connecting lines

• Main Author: Mykola Koziubra
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy 2018-12-01
• Series: Наукові записки НаУКМА: Юридичні науки
• Subjects: law; religion; moral; art; cognitive and value-based attitude to the world; methodology
• Online Access: http://nrplaw.ukma.edu.ua/article/view/156889

The article is devoted to the overview of the ties between law and extrascientific forms of world perception, namely religion, morals, and art. The evolution of the views regarding these ties and short overview of the contemporary state of the philosophic and legal scholarship regarding this issue is provided. The article widely deals with the analysis of value-based aspects of law, while understanding and clarification of these aspects comprise prerequisites of understanding the law as a phenomenon. Positivist and natural law jurisprudential concepts and their varieties provide several approaches to interconnection of the law with morals, starting with their denial and finishing with the dissolution of the law in morals. The author also shares his observations of the tendencies to the interpretations of more prudent and soft interconnection between them. Special attention is focused on the relations of law and justice. While dwelling on it as an essential, onthological quality of law, the author also stresses the impossibility of total assimilation of law and justice and provides the directions of their division. Value-based approach to the social realm connects law with religion, morals as well as with the art. Therefore, the author has noted the ties between law and art both on the formation stage and on the stages of their interpretation and application. The article concludes by stressing that the ties between law and religion, morals and art cannot be subject to rational logical analysis by methods applicable to science. Therefore, the author dwells on firm essential identities of jurisprudential methodology in comparison to the methodology of law, which is often out of focus in national legal academia.