Post-Secular and Post-Metaphysical Forms of Philosophical-Legal Thinking: Global and Post-Soviet Trends

Abstract

This article discusses the basic philosophical and legal approaches, justifying post-secular model of correlation and interaction of religion and law, reason and faith, and examines the solidarity approach to law and development of legal systems in post-soviet space. This paper describes the crisis of classical secular model of social organization and characterizes new post-secular and post-metaphysical forms of thinking and practice. Normative differentialism, communication theory, sociocultural approach, agonistic model, solidarity approach are allocated and examined in the quality of philosophical-legal trends. The author proves that in area of the post-Soviet Union dominates solidarity form of political-legal thought, in which solidarity is considered as a qualitative state of the social system, characterized by integrity and unity, suggesting a mechanism for sustainable development, orienting all occurring social processes and events on the achievement of consensual goals, the reproduction of socio-cultural identity and pivotal (axled) spiritual and moral foundations of the social system.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n5s3p232