The doctrine of Gennady Vasilyevich Maltsev on the moral foundations of law

Introduction. In the year of the 90th anniversary of the birth of the remarkable Soviet and Russian thinker, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation Gennady Vasilyevich Maltsev (1935-2013), the author presents a scientific essay on his fundamental monograph "The Moral Foundations of Law". As correctly noted in the abstract to this publication, the degree of transformation of moral, legal and other values is so high that social science has no other way but to return to its conclusions and look for new and better solutions.

Purpose. To conduct an in-depth comparative legal analysis of Professor G. V. Maltsev's fundamental monograph "The Moral Foundations of Law", which includes key provisions that reveal the essence of his theoretical ideas about the moral foundations of law.

Theoretical Basis. The significance of this work by the famous legal scholar G. V. Maltsev cannot be overestimated. At the same time, the voluminous publications on the same subject that have appeared in recent years have passed by the above-mentioned monograph, which to a certain extent impoverished and logically lowered the level of their content. In this regard, this article focuses the attention of researchers of the problems of law and legal awareness, as well as legal thinking in their inherent relationship with morality, religion and other social regulatory systems, on the need to comprehend the ideas that are substantiated in the work of G.V. Maltsev. We believe that this will contribute to the emergence of high-quality publications and the development of original approaches to the development of this important area of social life.

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