| Summary: | Background. In recent years, legal scholars, including judges of the Constitutional
Court of the Russian Federation, have demonstrated a great interest in philosophical
questions of law. They have discussed the philosophical concepts of "common
good" and "social justice", that are related to law. This article aims at conducting a
dialectical analysis of the features of natural law.
Materials and methods. The author invites readers to discuss the philosophical
properties of natural law. From the standpoint of idealistic dialectics, natural law is
presented in a certain theoretical model. Natural law is developing, i.e. it is changing
qualitatively. It develops according to dialectical laws. Natural law develops in the
direction of the legal ideal, although the movement to this goal goes through contradictions
and struggle. Based on this hypothesis and applying the dialectical method
of cognition of legal reality the author argues that natural law has a number of general
philosophical properties.
Results. Natural law is characterized by such properties as objectivity and subjectivity,
absoluteness and relativity, concreteness and abstraction. The objectivity of
natural law consists in the fact that the content of law corresponds to objective justice
and does not depend on the subject. The absoluteness of law is understood as the
absolute precise and complete regulation of public relations. The relativity of law refers
to inaccurate and incomplete regulation of public relations. The concreteness of
natural law consists in the fact that law acts as a regulator of social relations only in
certain specific conditions.
Conclusions. The development of natural law is similar to the development of
truth. It is also characterized with such properties as objectivity, absoluteness, relativity,
concreteness.
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