Methodological Problems of Jurisprudence in Research of the First Quarter of the 21st Century (Reading the Monograph “Conceptual and Methodological Problems of Modern Jurisprudence” by S.A. Kalinin)

The article examines the methods in theoretical and practical knowledge of state power, state and law are studied based on reading the monograph by S.A. Kalinin "Conceptual and Methodological Problems of Modern Jurisprudence" and its assessment from the point of view of the system of general, general scientific, particular scientific and other methods. The system of classification of methods is shown, which was established in philosophy in the late 1980s, under the influence of which were scientists of the Soviet period of development of society and the state in the USSR. One of the fundamental monographs of the Soviet era on legal methodology was the work of B. Ya. Tokarev "Logical and Historical Methods in Theoretical Research of Law" (1986). It reflects the mentality of a legal scholar of the Soviet era, who decided the issue of the relationship between economics, state power, law from the point of view of the materialistic understanding of history. The logical and historical methods developed by him as categories of dialectical logic have not lost their relevance even today. The article shows the advantages of the philosophical system of classification of research methods developed in the Soviet Union. It is concluded that in the methodology of studying the state and law, worldview plays a great role, knowledge of the hierarchy of methods and their correct application contributes to the implementation of the principle of transition from the abstract to the concrete in the theoretical knowledge of state and legal phenomena.

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