Knowledge as a New Form of Law

Abstract

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.