Methodology of Theoretical and Practical Knowledge in Jurisprudence as a Scientific and Practical Complex

Abstract

Abstract. The topicality of the research is due primarily to certain uncertainty regarding issues related to
the choice of the methodology of scientific investigations in Ukrainian jurisprudence. The authors claim that
there is no pyramid of knowledge methodologies in jurisprudence (three- or four-level), that there is a
"horizontal" arrangement of methodologies and that the researcher (scientist) himself forms a mosaic of
methodologies in his knowledge. The dominant positivist and normativist methodologies of knowledge,
especially in legal practice, will be overcome in the domestic scientific and practical complex of
jurisprudence in connection with the entry into the European space, where the synthesis of the continental
and Anglo-Saxon systems of legal understanding and law enforcement is powerful. The purpose of the
study is to identify methodological regularities in Ukrainian legal science and practice, its participation in
integration processes characteristic of Europe. The methodological basis of the research is a
polymethodological "horizontal" approach. The presented material constitutes a certain scientific novelty,
because the issues of the methodology of knowledge in jurisprudence are rarely discussed and even less
often investigated, especially in the context of the problem of the methodology of jurisprudence as a
scientific and practical complex and the development of conceptual views on the specifics of legal
knowledge at the theoretical and practical levels. Research results. The conclusion is substantiated that it
is advisable for lawyers (both theorists and practitioners) to know the trends in the development of
jurisprudence on the European territory and their influence on the development of this scientific and
practical complex in Ukraine. Practical significance. The authors proposed a new conceptual approach that
defines jurisprudence as a single theoretical-practical complex with the appropriate specificity of knowledge
methodologies at the level of legal science (theoretical level) and legal enforcement (practical level)
Keywords: jurisprudence; scientific and practical complex,; legal science; legal practice; methodology;
methods; integration