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SHS Web Conf.
Volume 134, 2022
14th Session of Euro-Asian Law Congress “The value of law” 2021
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| Article Number | 00054 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/202213400054 | |
| Published online | 09 February 2022 | |
Law in the institutional system of modern societies: the value aspect
Department of Philosophy and Sociology, Ural State Law University, Ekaterinburg, Russia
* Corresponding author: glazyrin_59@mail.ru
People as intelligent and socio-cultural beings give their being a value dimension, which allows them to develop an idea of "who we are" and strive for the organization of public life for the benefit of citizens. In modern societies, constitutional democracies, the values of the rule of law, inviolability of human dignity, legal freedom and human rights constitute the semantic basis for these societies. Outside of these values and legal institutions, modern constitutional and legal societies cannot exist. Social reality can be much "worse" than the legal values proclaimed and enshrined in constitutional acts. Modern societies are complex social systems. Their institutional structure is not limited to legal regulations, and the spectrum of public values is not limited to the area of legal values. The article emphasizes that moral maxims and other value formations cannot replace legal values. The purpose of this work is to study the role of value phenomena in maintaining the legal foundations of modern societies, to show the importance of legal values in comparison with other social values in ensuring the rule of law in modernist democratic societies.
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