Legal values as a criterion for differentiating the political and legal doctrines of Russian conservatism and European liberalism of the XIX century

The purpose of the study. The article presents a comparative analysis of the theoretical foundations of the legal values of Russian conservatism and European liberalism of the XIX century, which seems relevant due to the aggravated ideological and cultural dissonance, the consequence of which is a decrease in the effectiveness of legal regulation. Despite its importance, the potential of legal values of conservatism in the context of their implementation in the behavior of subjects remains poorly understood. The aim of the study is to identify the axiological dominants of Russian conservatism and European liberalism in order to eliminate modern problems of legal regulation caused by the confrontation of certain groups of legal values. Conclusions. As a result of the study, the author concluded that it is necessary to converge knowledge about law with the axiological perception of legal reality, taking into account the national characteristics of value categories reflected in legal archetypes as the basic elements of legal culture. Differences in the ways of cognition led to antagonism in views on the essence of law, the diametricality of the main legal values in the political and legal doctrines of domestic conservatism and European liberalism of the XIX century. In the political and legal doctrine of Russian conservatism of the time frame under study, special ideas about the phenomenon of "legal value" were formed, the emphasis was placed on its transcendence, cultural and historical conditionality, and deep connection with religion and morality. On the contrary, in the liberal paradigm with its cult of rationalism, the initial principles were private interests and economic needs. The author concludes that the success of the state-legal transformations carried out is proportional to the degree of their compliance with national traditions, expressed, inter alia, in legal values.

legal values, Russian conservatism, European liberalism, political and legal doctrine