OBJECTIVITY AS A METHODOLOGICAL PRINCIPLE OF KNOWLEDGE OF THE STATE AND LAW AND LEGAL IDEALISM
- Authors: Kozhevnikov V.V1
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Affiliations:
- Dostoevsky Omsk State University
- Issue: No 11 (2025)
- Pages: 123-134
- Section: Discussions and debates
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1026-9452/article/view/355671
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.7868/S3034543X25110096
- ID: 355671
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Abstract
The article analyzes the methodological principle of objectivity. Its status in relation to the methodology of cognition of the state and law, other state legal phenomena is determined. It is emphasized that compliance with the requirements of this principle determines the truth of knowledge about them; accordingly, violation leads to false knowledge, legal utopianism. As an example of the latter, the rule of law enshrined in the Constitution of the Russian Federation is given.
About the authors
V. V Kozhevnikov
Dostoevsky Omsk State University
Author for correspondence.
Email: kta6973@rambler.ru
Doctor of Law, Professor, Professor of the Department of Theory and History of State and Law Omsk, Russia
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