Open AccessIdeas of Human Rights and Freedoms and Civic Consciousness in Legal Ideals of Russian Liberals
Author(s) -
Svetlana Glushkova
Publication year - 2019
Language(s) - English
DOI - 10.35853/ufh-rmp-2019-l06
Subject(s) - ideology , human rights , consciousness , politics , state (computer science) , law , political science , sociology , value (mathematics) , population , environmental ethics , social science , epistemology , philosophy , demography , algorithm , machine learning , computer science
The paper addresses the ideas of human rights, civic consciousness,and various options of modeling the legal ideal by the leading representatives ofRussian political and legal thought of the second half of the 19th – early 20th century.The research is primarily aimed at identifying priorities and value fundamentals ofRussian liberals as the ideas of human rights and freedoms, rule-of-law state, civicconsciousness and civil society developed within various models of legal ideals thatcan still be relevant today.A conclusion is made that researching Russian liberals’ political and legal legacy isrelevant nowadays; many of their ideas were ahead of their time; a number ofresearchers were working to anticipate their time, era, and culture, while manyideas and thinkers were undeservedly forgotten. Any people’s culture of memory,meanwhile, is established based on the whole intellectual heritage of the past (withoutideological limitations or repressive actions), academic works and humanitiespractices of classics of social and natural sciences.Many ideas and approaches of classics of the Russian liberal political and legalthought should be used nowadays to establish national strategies and programs onprotecting the rights of socially vulnerable groups of population, a national platformfor human rights protection, and a national educational program on human rights.