LEGAL ARCHETYPES IN RUSSIAN CULTURE AND THEIR ORIGIN IN ORTHODOX WORKS OF ANCIENT RUSSIAN LITERATURE
- Authors: Gorban V.S1, Ovchinnikov A.I2,3, Konopy A.S1
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Affiliations:
- Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Southern Federal University
- Don Theological Seminary
- Issue: No 11 (2025)
- Pages: 31-43
- Section: On the 100th anniversary of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1026-9452/article/view/355664
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.7868/S3034543X25110022
- ID: 355664
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Abstract
The article substantiates the fundamental role of the Orthodox faith in the formation of the main archetypes of the Russian national legal consciousness, acting as the basic principle of the national legal culture. The authors have studied key archetypes (symphonies of power, truth, law, and reconciliation) that retain their significance and their basic semantic image in modern society, but at a new level and in a new historical context. The nature of the most important values of the Russian national legal consciousness, which originated in the bosom of the Orthodox Ancient Russian culture, is established, the mechanisms of their reflection and origin within the semantic structures of political and legal thought are shown, and their origin and role in the formation of national legal and political culture are determined. Referring to foreign experience, the authors also give examples of the manifestation of archetypal images in various cultures. The conducted research proves the importance of appealing to the national tradition, spiritual and moral principles of the Russian national legal consciousness in order to preserve national unity and the civilizational identity of the Russian state.
About the authors
V. S Gorban
Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Author for correspondence.
Email: gorbanv@gmail.com
Doctor of Law, Head of the Department of Philosophy of Law, History and Theory of State and Law, Head of the Interdisciplinary Center for Philosophical and Legal Studies Moscow, Russia
A. I Ovchinnikov
Southern Federal University; Don Theological Seminary
Email: k_fp3@mail.ru
Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of Theory and History of State and Law, Law Faculty; Vice-rector for Scientific Work; Priest Rostov-on-Don, Russia
A. S Konopy
Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: konopy-anna@mail.ru
PhD in Law, Researcher of the Department of Philosophy of Law, History and Theory of State and Law Moscow, Russia
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