STRUCTURE OF THE SYSTEM OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE

Abstract

The levels of the system of scientific knowledge are analyzed due to scientists’ works. There are various classifications. It is emphasized that some authors include general philosophical methods, general scientific and private legal methods in the methodology of law. Some scholars extend the understanding of the methodology of legal phenomena to four components, which, in the context of the development of methodological pluralism, seems most appropriate and justified. They distinguish the following groups of methods: general philosophical methods (applied by scientists in all sciences, at every stage of research); general scientific methods of cognition (reveal the philosophical method); special methods (developed by specific sciences and applied in jurisprudence); own methods of jurisprudence (used at the stage of knowledge of legal practice).

There are practically none of the methods used in legal science that would not be applied to other branches of knowledge.It is emphasized that all named groups of methods are necessary for carrying out a full, comprehensive, completed state-legal research, each of them may be required at some stage of the study, so even through this methodology should be multiple, pluralistic.

The main merit of the systematic approach is that it enables to maintain and develop the principle of integrity in the study of a particular subject of study, to cover not only the basic but also the accompanying phenomena, and thus to establish and analyze the whole holistic process of origin and development of the respective institute, establish its main links, areas of influence.

It is the systemic approach that most fully meets the implementation in practice of the requirements of the dialectical law of mutual connection, the mutual conditionality of phenomena and objects in nature and society.