Demchenko, T.I. On contingent truth of legal conscience

Abstract: The article is devoted to understanding and meaning of contingent truth of legal conscience, laying the ground for understanding of unconditional truth, which is towering above formal logical knowledge and defines it. The modern situation in the Russian society, state, conscience and culture, the need to develop a national idea, state legal ideology, novel geopolitical reality are calling for the further study of legal conscience, cognition of its theoretical truth, uncovering the practical need within the state and law framework. According to a materialistic model legal conscience (and conscience in general) is reflection on state, law and other material matters of the world via the processes in a human mind. At its base one may find the knowledge, gained with the senses. Establishing the truth is connected with statements, which adequately reflect upon the material reality. Contingent truth is gained due to sensory perception, logical thinking, rational knowledge, appearing within a specific historical framework, and it changes in accordance with the changes of these conditions.

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