E.N. Trubetskoy on the Relationship of Law and Morality

Abstract

The article analyzes the views of the famous Russian jurist and philosopher Evgeny Nikolaevich Trubetskoy (1863-1920) on the problem of the correlation of law and morality in social regulation. E.N. Trubetskoy was a prominent representative of the concept of unity, the founder of which in Russian philosophical thought was V.S. Solovyov. The axiological trinity of truth, goodness and beauty was recognized as the basis of the metaphysics of unity. On this theoretical postulate, E.N. Trubetskoy built his concept of moral idealism, acting as one of the variations of the natural law doctrine recognizing the existence of positive (positive) law and moral (natural) law, the defining problem of the philosophy of law - the question on which the further development of jurisprudence depends, the scientist considered the definition of the eternal principle of morality, the so-called "law of good", the search for its source and the permissibility of evolution. He was an opponent of the evolutionary trend prevailing in Russian liberal legal science, whose supporters did not recognize the eternal principle underlying morality. Law and morality in Trubetskoy's teaching are connected by the idea of objective and universal goodness, which constitutes the meaning and purpose of human life.