To the Question of Theoretical Issues in P. I. Novgorodtsev Philosophy of Law

Abstract

Taking into consideration the multidimensional nature of philosophical and legal heritage of
P.I. Novgorodtsev, in which the natural-legal paradigm was closely tied to the legal and ethicalphilosophical issues, and the natural-legal paradigm was developed in the methodological, historical
and theoretical aspects; the article attempts to identify, to reconstruct the main theoretical problems
of the philosophy of law of the famous Russian philosopher. The article discusses the evolution of
theoretical problems in the legal philosophy of P. I. Novgorodtsev (from consideration of the ‘revival’ of natural law to the analysis of its transient and essential contents and, further, to the development
of a natural law paradigm in the context of the crisis of legal conscience). The author emphasizes
that such aspects of Novgorodtsev’s philosophical and legal perspective – as the question of the
thematic “genre” of the philosophy of law, the relation of morality and law, subjective and objective
ethics, of state and law, etc. are still of significant scientific and philosophical interest.