The art of (legal) science

Within the framework of the social division of labor and the place of state jurisprudence among other regulatory systems designed to regulate social life, parliamentarians create rules of conduct designed only for typical situations and average citizens, and law enforcement officers are forced to apply such templates to individual cases and specific people. Thus, the reaction of the authorities turns out to be deliberately inaccurate and therefore unfair. It is corrected by various means, but the most delicate and effective – the ennobling of insensitive state law with the help of technology and extreme orientations of art as the highest layer of culture – is almost not cultivated. It is scientists who can and should correct the situation, who are engaged in free mental work every day and are not involved in law-making and the settlement of legal conflicts. The article argues for the need for legal scholars to perform this spiritual duty. It shows the connection of the attractiveness of jurisprudence with modern trends in culture and art, defines their content, differences and channels of communication with each other, on the basis of which assumptions are made about the fundamental compatibility of science and art, about the predominant need of science in art, but not vice versa, and also presents arguments for and against" the movement of law towards the beautiful. The central fragment of the article is the question of what ideals, tools and practice of art can influence the spiritualization of legal thought. The author classifies universal attitudes, private technologies, motives for striving for elegance and ways of hygiene of art into 3 categories – personal urges to creativ-ity, the ultimate socio-cultural orientations of the servants of the muses and the mechanisms of man-made maintenance of spirituality by them, shows the ways of penetration of aesthetics into jurisprudence, and also gives the names and works of representatives of criminal law science analyzing cultural fundamentals of the industry and those engaged in its spiritualization. Measures to increase the aesthetic appeal of legal science are presented to the readers and deductive knowledge is presented, the quintessence of which is the idea that a meaningful way beyond the platitudes and practicality is not contrary to the logic of legal science and its location in the social system of division of labor, assumes the individuality of a thinking scientist, strives for the ideal, is distinguished by elegance, is of particular value to cognitive activity for professionals and society.