GAGIK HAMBARDZUMYAN

Applicant at the Institute of Philosophy,

Sociology and Law of the National Academy

of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59546/18290744-2025.4-6-11

Annotation.

This article thoroughly discusses the modern conceptual approaches related to legal understanding. A type of legal understanding is a certain understanding of law that characterizes a combination of the most essential features of law.

The main conceptual approaches to modern legal understanding are the transformed concepts of natural law, the normative (positivist) approach, judicial understanding, integrative legal understanding, liberal legal concepts.

Legal understanding is a legal foundation of social reality. At the heart of any legal understanding is some idea of the meaning of human and social life, of the essence of man and society. In other words, each legal understanding is based on a certain type of philosophical picture of the world. As a tool for regulating and protecting social relations, law arose in the earliest stages of social development and developed together with society. At the same time, the processes of legal formation and law enforcement have long been of an elemental nature, which was conditioned by the objective regularities of social development. These patterns are based on cause-and-effect relationships and general principles of system formation. Any system, including the social system, develops in at least three moments. under the influence of self-preservation, self-destruction, and self-development. The strengthening or weakening of the mentioned trends acts, on the one hand, as a consequence of preceding events, and on the other hand, as a cause of subsequent changes.

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