THE BOUNDARIES OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF LAW AND ISSUES OF HISTORIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH

The article presents the results of a study on one of the most complex and challenging problems in fundamental legal science, related to defining the limits of the Philosophy of Law. To solve this problem, it may be necessary to turn to studying the logic of sense-making in various traditions of historical philosophical and scientific thinking. The specific logic of sense-making in state and legal matters has certain characteristics, the identification of which allows for a more accurate and objective understanding and description of various legal traditions, going beyond the scope of philosophical and juridical analysis. Recognising the logic of sense-making in state and law requires those basic, intuitive attitudes that characterise a particular way of thinking about and perceiving the world, as coherent and integrated. The findings of research in modern philosophy, particularly those conducted by Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences A.V. Smirnov, are of significant methodological significance. For the European legal system, it is crucial to contrast ancient logic as substantial and its later adaptations within national legal cultures, while for the Anglo-American legal tradition, initial intuition regarding processuality is most accurate, also characteristic of Arab-Islamic culture. Considering semantic logic types is seen as a promising task in shaping the Russian historical model of political-legal knowledge.