Синтетическая теория права в интерпретации представителей консервативной идеологии России

Anton A. Vasiliev

Authors

Anton A. Vasiliev Altai State University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3122-531X

Abstract

The article is devoted to the substantiation of the synthetic concept of law understanding as interpreted by the conservative legal ideology in Russia. The author demonstrates the uniqueness of the Russian traditionalist concept of law based on the works of the Russian conservatives. The paper argues the idea that the law according to the conservative worldview is a unity of religion, morality, and a statute in the form of the concept of “truth”. Law understanding in the Russian conservatism is a special synthetic theory of law which differs from the attempt to connect the natural law, positivist and sociological concepts. The author explains the perception of law by the traditional Russian ideology as a factor of stabilization of social life and criticizes the widespread statement about nihilism of the Russian conservative legal thought. Transformation of an involuntary organized society into a free conciliar community of believers, the church, where the inner truth, conscience and law of God, rather than formal legal rules and coercion, are applied, was an ideal of the public and state-legal development for the conservatives. A statute, formal external truth, takes a subordinate position in relation to the spiritual and moral values of love, goodness, duty, justice and mercy and shall serve as a means of fighting the evil, of ensuring the minimum goodness in the society beyond which there is a social chaos and social anarchy. The statute shall absorb spiritual principles of the society. The statute is one of the elements of a living, organic combination of religion, morality (traditions) and formal law into a single regulator, the “Truth”. Conservatism saw the danger of law in two aspects: a legal idealism and voluntarism of the legislator and usage of law as a form of fixing anti-traditional liberal or socialist ideas and values. Essentially, the conservatives grasped the regularity of the secularized society: the weaker the traditional regulators are, the greater the role of the formal law is. However, the greater the role of law among other social regulators is, the level of crime, anarchy, and disorder is higher and the scope of state violence is increasing accordingly.

Keywords:

law understanding, conservatism, truth, morality, conciliarity, synthetic concept of law

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biography

Anton A. Vasiliev, Altai State University

doctor of legal sciences, associate professor, head of Department of Theory and History of State and Law

References

Aksakov I.S. [Doctrine and organic life]. Aksakov I.S. Nashe znamia — russkaia narodnost’ [Our banner — Russian nationality]. Moscow, Institute of Russian civilization, 2008, pp. 204–235. (In Russian)

Aksakov K. S. Sobr. soch. [Collected Works]. In 3 vol. Vol. I. Moscow, 1889. 578 p. (In Russian)

Alekseev N. N. Russkii narod i gosudarstvo [Russian people and the state]. Moscow, Agraf Publ., 2003. 635 p. (In Russian)

Berman H.G. Zapadnaia traditsiia prava. Epokha formirovaniia [The Western tradition of law. The era of the formation]. Moscow, 1998. 624 p. (In Russian)

Chestnov I.L. Dialogicheskaia ontologiia prava v situatsii postmoderna [Dialogic ontology right in the postmodern situation]. Pravovedenie [Jurisprudence], 2001, no.3, pp. 45–52. (In Russian)

Florovsky G. [Eternal and transient in the teaching of slavophiles]. Florovsky G. Iz proshlogo russkoi mysli [From the past of Russian thought]. Moscow, Agraf Publ., 1998, pp. 4–70. (In Russian)

Galiev F.H. Sinkretizm sovremennoi pravovoi kul’tury. Monografiia [Syncretism modern legal culture. Monograph]. Ufa, RIP BSU Publ., 2011. 354 p. (In Russian)

Grafsky V. G. Integral’naia (sintezirovannaia) iurisprudentsiia: Aktual’nyi i vse eshche nezavershennyi proekt [Integral (synthesized) jurisprudence: Actual and still unfinished project]. Pravovedenie [Jurisprudence], 2000, no. 3, pp. 49–64. (In Russian)

Grafsky V. G. Istoriia politicheskikh i pravovykh uchenii [History of political and legal doctrines]. Moscow, Prospekt Publ., 2005. 600 p. (In Russian)

Gubaeva T. V. Iazyk i pravo. Iskusstvo vladeniia slovom v professional’noi iuridicheskoi deiatel’nosti [Language and Law. Possession Arts word in a professional legal capacity]. Moscow, Norma Publ., 2007. 160 p. (In Russian)

Hilarion. [Sermon on Law and Grace]. Pervye knigi Sviatoi Rusi [The first book of Holy Russia]. Moscow, Dar Publ., 2005, pp. 3–56. (In Russian)

Ilyin I.A. Sobr. soch. [Collected Works]. In 10 vol., vol.4. Moscow, Russian book Publ., 1994. 624 p. (In Russian)

Isaev I. A., Zolotukhin N. M. Istoriia politicheskikh i pravovykh uchenii Rossii XI–XX vv. [The history of Russian political and legal doctrines XI–XX centuries]. Moscow, Jurist Publ., 1995. 378 p. (In Russian)

Kartsov A. S. Pravovaia ideologiia russkogo konservatizma (II polovina XIX — nachalo XX vekov). Dis. d-ra iurid. nauk [Legal ideology of Russian conservatism (II half of XIX–early XX centuries). The Thesis of Dr. of Laws]. Moscow, 2008. 37 p. (In Russian)

Khomyakov A.S. [Opinion foreigners about Russia]. Khomyakov A.S. Vsemirnaia zadacha Rossii [World challenge Russia]. Moscow, Institute of Russian civilization, 2008, pp. 568–601. (In Russian)

Khomyakov A. S. Polnoe sobranie sochinenii [Full composition of writings]. In 8 vol. Vol. I. 417 p. (In Russian)

Kireyevsky I.V. [In response, A.S.Khomyakov]. Kireyevsky I.V. Dukhovnye osnovy russkoi zhizni [Spiritual Foundations of Russian life]. Moscow, Institute of Russian civilization, 2007, pp. 46–85. (In Russian)

Kozlihin I. Yu. [Integral Law: discussion questions]. Filosofiia prava v Rossii: istoriia i sovremennost’ [Philosophy of Law in Russia: history and modernity]. Ed. by V. G. Grafsky. Moscow, 2009, pp. 243–250. (In Russian)

Kozlihin I.Yu. O netraditsionnykh podkhodakh k pravu [About non-traditional approaches to law]. Pravovedenie [Jurisprudence], 2006, no. 1, pp. 31–40. (In Russian)

Lukovskaya D.I., Razuvaev N.V. Politiko-pravovye idei dosokratikov: predposylki vozniknoveniia i razvitie [Political and legal ideas of the Presocratics: preconditions for the emergence and development]. Pravovedenie [Jurisprudence], 2014, no. 6, pp. 236–256. (In Russian)

Nasyrov R.V. Chelovek kak samotsennost’: O formulirovke st. 2 Konstitutsii RF 1993 g.: kurs lektsii [Man as a value in itself: On the wording of Art. 2 of the 1993 Constitution of the Russian Federation, the (course of lectures)]. Moscow, Yurlitinform Publ., 2011. 277 p. (In Russian)

Nasyrov R.V. O sootnoshenii antichnoi i novoevropeiskoi traktovok estestvennogo prava [With a ratio of antique and modern European interpretations of natural law]. Rossiiskii iuridicheskii zhurnal [The Russian legal magazine], 2008, no. 4, pp. 56–64. (In Russian)

Novgorodtsev P. I. [About the original elements of Russian Philosophy of Law]. Istoriia filosofii prava [History of Philosophy of Law]. Ed. by A.P.Albov. St. Petersburg, Legal Institute, 1998, pp. 507–534. (In Russian)

Peresvetov I. S. Soch. [Works]. Moscow, Leningrad, The USSR Academy of Sciences, 1956. 386 p. (In Russian)

Pobedonostsev K.P. Velikaia lozh’ nashego vremeni [The great lie of our time]. Moscow, ANO Development of spirituality, culture and science. 2004. 766 p. (In Russian)

Polyakov A.V. [Communicative theory of law as a variant of an integral understanding of law]. Pravovye idei i instituty v istoriko-teoreticheskom diskurse [The legal ideas and institutions in historical and theoretical discourse]. Moscow, 2008, pp.175–190. (In Russian)

Polyakov A.V. [Russian theoretical legal thought]. Nash trudnyi put’ k pravu [Our difficult path to the right]. Ed. by V. S. Nersesanc. Moscow, 2006, pp. 232–242. (In Russian)

Polyakov A. V. Mozhet li pravo byt’ nepravym? [Can the right to be wrong?]. Pravovedenie [Jurisprudence], 1997, no. 4, pp. 83–101. (In Russian)

Polyakov A.V. Obshchaia teoriia prava: fenomenologo-kommunikativnyi podkhod [General Theory of Law: phenomenological-communicative approach]. Lecture course. St. Petersburg, 2003. 845 p. (In Russian)

Polyakov A.V. Obshchaia teoriia prava: problemy interpretatsii v kontekste kommunikativnogo podkhoda [General Theory of Law: the problem of interpretation in the context of the communicative approach]. Textbook for High Schools. St. Petersburg, 2004. 864 p. (In Russian)

Polyakov A.V. Obshchaia teoriia prava: problemy interpretatsii v kontekste kommunikativnogo podkhoda [General Theory of Law: the problem of interpretation in the context of the communicative approach]. Moscow, Prospekt Publ., 2016. 832 p. (In Russian)

Polyakov A. V. Postklassicheskoe pravovedenie i ideia kommunikatsii [Post-classical jurisprudence and the idea of communication]. Pravovedenie [Jurisprudence], 2006, no. 2, pp. 26–43. (In Russian)

Pososhkov I. T. Soch. [Works]. Moscow, 1842. 346 p. (In Russian)

Pravosoznanie rossiiskogo obshchestva [Legal awareness of Russian society]. Eds. V. V. Sorokin, A. A. Vasilieva. Barnaul, Azbuka Publ., 2014. 251 p. (In Russian)

Semitko A.P. Russkaia pravovaia kul’tura: mifologicheskie i sotsial’no-ekonomicheskie istoki i predposylki [Russian legal culture: mythological and socio- economic origins and background]. Gosudarstvo i pravo [State and law], 1992, no.10, pp. 108–113. (In Russian)

Sinyukov V.N. Rossiiskaia pravovaia sistema: voprosy teorii. Avtoref. dis. d-ra iurid. nauk [The Russian legal system: problems of the theory. Thesis of Doctor of Laws diss.]. Saratov, 1995. 48 p. (In Russian)

Sorokin V. V. Poniatie i sushchnost’ prava v dukhovnoi kul’ture Rossii [The concept and essence of law in the spiritual culture of Russia]. Moscow, 2006. 456 p. (In Russian)

Sorokin V.V. Poniatie sovesti v pravovom izmerenii [The concept of conscience in legal measurement]. Istoriia gosudarstva i prava [History of State and Law], 2009, no. 21, pp. 2–6. (In Russian)

Tomsinov V.A. Iurisprudentsiia Drevnei Rusi i pravovaia kul’tura Vizantii [Jurisprudence of ancient Russia and Byzantine legal culture]. Bulletin of Moscow University. Series 11. Right, 2009, no. 4, pp. 3–26. (In Russian)

Tyurin M. G. Arkhetipy natsional’noi pravovoi kul’tury. Avtoref. dis. kand. iurid. nauk [Archetypes of the national legal culture. Thesis of PhD of Legal Sciences diss.]. Rostov-on-Don, 2008. 29 p. (In Russian)

Varlamov N.V. Rossiiskaia teoriia prava v poiskakh paradigmy [Russian theory of law in search of a paradigm]. Zhurnal rossiiskogo prava [Magazine of the Russian right], 2009, no. 12, pp. 68–84. (In Russian)

Yaschenko A.S. Filosofiia prava Vladimira Solov’eva. Teoriia federalizma. Opyt sinteticheskoi teorii prava i gosudarstva [Legal philosophy of Vladimir Solovyov. The theory of federalism. Experience the synthetic theory of law and state]. St. Petersburg, Aletheia Publisher Publ., 1999. 256 p. (In Russian)