Practical significance of the philosophical discourse of law

The purpose of the work is to identify the significance of the theoretical and philosophical principles of law for the practical activity of a professional lawyer. The author's task is to actualize philosophical and socio-humanitarian knowledge for the formation of professional competencies within the framework of the integrative doctrine of legal understanding, which forms the basis of the legal worldview of the concept of natural rights. To achieve these goals, the author uses private scientific methods: historical culturological, sociological, axiological, as well as a special method of legal hermeneutics, revealing the discourse of legal reality in general. Results: The analysis of cause-and-effect relationships of socio-legal reality requires an integrative effort of jurisprudence, philosophy, sociology, psychology and other socio-humanitarian disciplines. The theory of law, the sociology of law, the philosophy of law as scientific fields and academic disciplines underlie the knowledge of the essence of legal reality. The ontology of law, which studies the fundamental principles of the existence of law, and the legal axiology associated with the value content of law, as law and social life in general become more complex, cease to be the property of only a narrow circle of specialists discussing the problems of social philosophy related to the existence of law in the past and in modern society. Conclusions: In the conditions of an incessantly complicated political and legal reality, the practical solution of problems in the field of jurisprudence by a legislator and a law enforcement officer requires a lawyer to know the philosophical foundations of the legal existence of a person, society and the state. This gives scientific socio-humanitarian knowledge a new relevant sound. The philosophical discourse of law and the theoretical and ideological postulates of the socio-humanitarian sciences, which ensure the dialectical unity of legal goals and legal means to achieve them, should form the foundation not only of legal knowledge, but also the basis of the practical activity of a professional lawyer. 

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