LEGAL VALUES AND LEGAL MENTALITY IN THE CONTEXT OFSOCIO-PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS

Abstract

This article considers the issues of legal values and its demonstration in legal
mentality of modern person. According to the opinion of the author, rights as a value in the legal mentality manifests itself in two dimensions – first, as an objective reality, possessing objective properties - the second, as the properties of consciousness and behavior, as the basis of human activity. As a result of the analysis, the author comes to the conclusion that it is not possible to understand the value of law while remaining on strictly formal positions, especially without its connection with morality. Therefore, legal thought should look for the essential aspects of law not in the forms,
but in the content of law. Also, the work analyzes the prerequisites of the values, that contribute to the change of types of understanding of law from positive to natural, which eventually forms a new. mental model of legal relations.