Legal idealism (legal fetishism) - a hypertrophied attitude to legal means, a reassessment of the role of law and its capabilities, the conviction that laws can solve all social problems.
Legal idealism is the exact opposite of legal nihilism , but both of these categories have similar consequences in content of a negative nature. The category of “legal idealism” was introduced into scientific circulation in 1994 by Professor N. I. Matuzov in the article “Legal nihilism and legal idealism as two sides of the same coin” [1]
Content
Manifestations of Legal Idealism
Representatives of legal idealism are confident that the adoption of good laws will be able to change the current state of affairs for the better. However, this position is not always true. Law, despite many regulators, is not omnipotent, and legal methods of regulation require appropriate conditions for their implementation and the creation of prepared soil for their action.
Legal idealism in the Russian Federation
In Russia, legal idealism has received particular development and distribution in the legal consciousness at the level of the state apparatus of power, and in the 1990s - and among the broad masses, competing with legal nihilism .
See also
- Theory of State and Law
- Legal awareness
- Legal nihilism
- Anti-legal moralism
- Legal infantilism
- Legal demagogy
Notes
- ↑ See Journal of Law. 1994. No 2