Methodological Foundations for the History of Political and Legal Doctrines Study

The paper is devoted to the methodological foundations of the study of the history of political and legal thought. Political and legal doctrines play an important role in the life of a state-organized society. The influence of ideas is especially noticeable, but rather their struggle in the modern world. If earlier the public consciousness was somehow fueled by illusions of a certain kind, today it is not. As there are no more illusions. Everything is very clearly marked. Agreement with the influence of ideas on the practice of state legal construction, and more broadly, the entire system of international relations, inevitably raises questions about the methodological foundations of political and legal doctrines and methodological tools that are used in modern legal science. The history of political and legal doctrines occupies a special place in the system of legal disciplines. This feature is related to its methodological functions. The paper focuses on the fact that the history of political and legal doctrines as an integral part of the theoretical and historical legal sciences, on the one hand, uses methods of cognition that are common to various branches of scientific knowledge, and on the other hand, this scientific discipline has its own scientific potential. This is what brings it closer to the general theory of law and the state as its history and at the same time separates it from other legal sciences, primarily branch sciences, which do not have their own methodological tools. The paper states that the history of political and legal doctrines has its own methodological foundations for the study of political and legal thought. In addition to the methodological component, the paper also touches on the problem of the increasing role of the history of political and legal doctrines.

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