ПРАВОВЕ СУСПІЛЬСТВО ЯК МОЖЛИВІСТЬ РЕАЛІЗАЦІЇ СОЦІАЛЬНОГО ІДЕАЛУ
The law society as a possibility of social ideal realization

Summary/Abstract: Determining the values embodied in the social ideal is one of the most important conditions for social development. Social ideals reflect the contradictions of reality and its dissatisfied needs. Social conflicts are solved by using the concept of an ideal social order, while the absence of the regulatory ideal of social ideas leads to unsystematic actions of social actors. One of the main causes of the crisis in Ukraine is the lack of social ideology and general definition of long-term goals of society. Ukrainian society needs a national idea, a key element of which is the idea of the ideal form of society, the state and law. Therefore the problem of law society as a social and cultural ideal is issue of the day.The discussion of law society as a social ideal is insufficient in philosophical and law studies. Some premises for the philosophical discourse of law society can be found in the writings of V. Nersesyants, E. Soloviev, A.Garnik, S. Maximov, M. Tsimbalyuk, Y. Kalinowski, V. Andrushchenko. The analysis of scientific sources and publications indicates that problems of philosophical study of law society as a social ideal in its relation to the legal reality and the possibility of its realization in practice are not sufficiently explored. So, determining the terms and conditions for the exercise of the ideal of law society as a social ideal is the objective of this paper.Social ideals are required as the most important elements of the structure of consciousness and principles of reality’s development and conversion. The law ideal is a variety of social ideal. Social law ideal is an idea whose implementation is desirable and proper. The idea of it must be based on critical analysis and realism and indicate the actual ways to improve the existing legal order. The main theme of this doctrine should not be search of final social perfection, but indications of the actual ways and means by which any order can be improved.One of the present ideals of social development is to build the law society. It provides for the principle of the rule of law, and its conditions of existence are the main institutional and non institutional components.The institutional are a civil society and a legal state. Non-institutional – they are person as an autonomous and responsible legal entity, values of absolute human rights and justice. According to S. Maximov, the first condition for the improvement of law are non institutional conditions of formation law community.To solve the problem of implementing of law society we should refer to the concept of M. Alekseev. He said, the legal concept consists of three levels: the legal entity, the legal values and legal rights and responsibilities.The first step towards the ideal society is the improvement the subject of law, the ideals embodied in the life by real people. Accordingly, the level of their historical consciousness and method of social creativity must be very high. So perfect subject of law becomes spiritually mature personality with a well-developed sense of justice, so that it becomes possible existence of a "healthy" institutions of positive law, ethics legal statutes and actual perfect order.The second step to achieve the ideal is a statement of law values. The subject of law knows nature of law, critically assesses the value of existing law and realize value through the creation of institutions that embody legal values. Thus, we achieve a just rule of law, with reasonable rights and duties of its members.The implementation the law ideal is dialectical, it is always possible and at the same time never unattainable. Rule of law is realized gradually, any historical period is presented as a partially implemented social ideal. So law society does not provide existence of any empirical reality. It is unfinished movement toward the ideal, a gradual process of improving the social order through confirmation, protection and guarantee of human rights, justice and the rule of law, but not a achieving the final of perfect social life. But the idea of possibility to reach it in a particular society is compulsory.The ideal of law society is historically variable phenomenon of legal culture and the model of social ideology and it highly dependents on the socio-cultural and historical context of attempts to implement it. Approximation to the ideal of law society assumes agreement with moral demands and standards to the extent it is possible in a specific historical and cultural community space. It is particularly important be aware of it in the development of national law ideal for Ukraine. It has to consider the geopolitical, socio-economic, mental and historical conditions of the national cultural and legal traditions.

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