The value of law and legal values in a globalizing world (Axiological review of the book “State and law: human rights and the world order based on the Rule of Law”)

Abstract

Like all mankind, law and the state as social phenomena and institutions are entering a new, non-equilibrium and dynamic phase of their development. The dynamics of this development clearly demonstrates several interconnected trends. These tendencies include: expansion of global integration processes with deepening contradictions between states and social groups; demolition of consolidated international legal norms; strengthening the role of the military component of International Law and its use in the implementation of global politics; an increase in the threat of global shocks (epidemics, wars, local conflicts, famine and energy crisis). Humanity is at the point of bifurcation, when the desire to satisfy the greedy interests or pathological needs of individual subjects can throw civilization into the darkness of the cruel past, where the “right of equal” and “the right of the legal” will be replaced by the “right of the strong”. Intellectual and intelligent social strata in the indicated conditions are called upon to form theoretical and methodological springboards to counter new negative trends, challenges and threats. One of the forms of such work is the preparation and publication of scientific works that reveal the opposite side of the barbaric way of being - law and values. Through the knowledge of law and social values, as well as the values of law, the evolutionary and civilization path of modern mankind is clearly demonstrated. In this aspect, the book “State and law: human rights and the world order based on the Rule of Law”, published in three volumes, is a clear example of how to resolve these contradictions. The authors present in the article their own reflections on the value concepts of the publication. These arguments are given from the socio-philosophical and psychological points of view. The axiological characteristics embedded in the book and the value-semantic premises addressed to the potential reader are consistently highlighted.