THE ANCIENT GREEK LEGAL-PHILOSOPHICAL DOCTRINE: HISTORY AND MODERNITY
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https://doi.org/10.54503/2953-8165-2025.4(2)-7Keywords:
Athens, Greece, polis, philosopher, democracy, right, law, natural law, positive lawAbstract
This research aims to reveal the essence and peculiarities of the ancient Greek legal-philosophical doctrine. Therefore, in this scientific article, the authors systematically analyze the legal-philosophical approaches of the main representatives of ancient Greek legal-philosophical thought - Solon, Heraclitus, Democritus, the Sophists, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle - and present their historical and modern significance in the further development of human theoretical thought.
The methodological bases of the research include both general (analysis, synthesis, deduction, induction) and special (comparative-legal) methods of scientific research. As a result, the impact of the Greek legal-philosophical thought on the formation of the developed Roman legal culture and the legal conceptual approaches of both the Middle Ages and the Modern and Contemporary periods, including: the supremacy of law, governance according to law, equality before the law and the court, the concept of legal state, as well as the formation of ideas about freedom and autonomy is presented in the article.
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