irrationalism

The author considers the combination of the concept of spiritual laws and the principle of self-reliance in the philosophy of American transcendentalist R. W. Emerson. This analysis reveals the meaning of such combination and the relationship between freedom of creativity and spiritual laws, culminating in a fusion of individualism and holistic principles in R. W. Emerson's philosophy.

The article analyzes the main factors influencing populism on public administration in the historical aspect. It has been proved, as experience shows, that populism has always occupied a special place in the implementation of programs of political leaders and parties and their interrelation with public administration. Populism remains an actual phenomenon of socio-political life in many countries of the world.

Distribution dialectical approach to legal reasoning proves an accomplished fact about the weakening of the legal-positivist perception in the generally accepted doctrine of the right in favor of the natural-law concept of legal understanding. In this connection, we consider the philosophical and legal theories of subjectivism, irrationalism and voluntarist liberalism, which discloses the essential content of legal argumentation in modern law.