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Introduction: the article draws attention to the fact that the subject of philosophical and legal discussion no longer includes issues of deep order. Questions of the influence of disciplines on each other remain out of sight. Among those is the question of the lesson that philosophy teaches to law in the modern era. The search for an answer to this question points to the changing attitude of philosophy towards the phenomenon of knowledge. The cognitive aspect of the problem is related to the new understanding of the real meaning of knowledge, its extensiveness. Today philosophy declares and justifies the thesis of knowledge as a new form of being. Purpose: by testing the philosophical hypothesis, to establish that knowledge has always taken place but as a form of being it was long in the shadow of consciousness. In the new reality, knowledge transformed into the dominant format. Methods: comparative and historical analysis. Results: the study confirmed both the validity of the philosophical approach to knowledge as a form of being and the claim of this phenomenon to the status of a new form of law. Knowledge exists in three key and inextricably interrelated hypostases: as an object of evolution of public consciousness; as a result of concrete historical development; as an object of everyday life, when legal knowledge about an incident is developed ‘here and now’ by participants in legal proceedings.
Based on the data of the sociological survey, the author considers the attitude of prosecutors to their own independence and to the circumstances that can affect it. The questionnaire focused on the opinions of prosecutors and various aspects of the impact on their decisions: higher management, pressure from the media, representatives of state authorities, etc. The results of the survey prove that the relationship between the higher management and public authorities in the field of their impact on the independence of prosecutors has both functional-hierarchical and real reasons. The study revealed a coincidence of the high level of dependence on the authorities with the high level of management interference in the procedural activities of prosecutors, which allows to suggest that in most cases officials put pressure on prosecutors through their higher management. The results of the survey show that with experience the level of critical evaluation of authorities’ attempts to influence the process and the results of the prosecutors’ work increases. If young professionals do not feel rejection when face the intervention of the authorities, then with the growth of experience negative assessments of such actions appear and gradually strengthen. At the same time, the revealed indicators do not allow to say that for inexperienced prosecutors at the first stages of their professional development the phenomenon of power is unknown or unclear. On the contrary, they are familiar with it and feel the most favorable attitude towards it.
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