Theoretical and methodological features of legality: system-activity approach
- Authors: Akhmatov A.V.1
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Affiliations:
- Mirzoev Russian University of Advocacy and Notary
- Issue: No 3 (2025)
- Pages: 76–87
- Section: Discussions and debates
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1026-9452/article/view/287876
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S1026945225030077
- ID: 287876
Abstract
The article reveals for the first time in a general theoretical context the problems of studying legality in an inseparable unity with the concept of legal activity and a systemic approach. It traces the understanding of the ideas of legality that have developed in science by representatives of different eras and trends. It is noted that legality in a methodological context plays the role of an important criterion of lawful or unlawful in social activity as a whole. The author analyzes the basic characteristics of legality as a system, reveals the definition of the concept of legality at the empirical level as one of the forms of expression of legal activity, which is a methodological “key” to understanding legality as a general legal phenomenon.
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Alexey V. Akhmatov
Mirzoev Russian University of Advocacy and Notary
Author for correspondence.
Email: Ahmatov@bk.ru
Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor
Russian Federation, 3/5, bld. 1 Maly Poluyarovsky Lane, 105120 MoscowReferences
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