Methodological foundations in legal science are considered in scientific and conceptualunderstanding. The criticism of the state of methodological research in our science, based on the goal,the formation of a civil society in Ukraine, the construction of a democratic rule of law, market economyis quite justified. Only by the nature of the problems that arise in legal science in relation to these goals,and the scale of the research objectives, does methodology become one of the least developed areas ofour science and, above all, the general theory of law. The reason for this, at first glance, is almost banaland is related mainly to two circumstances: objectively caused by the de-actualization of Marxistepistemological installations in modern Ukrainian legal science and the absence of the philosophical andmethodological approaches formed there, alternatively.
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