Political and legal ideas of M. M. Kovalevsky on collective responsibility, personal rights, civic consciousness and progress

Svetlana I. Glushkova –Doctor of Political Science, head of Human Rights chair at the Liberal Arts University (Yekaterinburg), the Chairperson of the Sverdlovsk Regional Office of the Russian Political Science Association, the Chairperson of Public Council for Civic Education in the Sverdlovsk region
Year: 2019
DOI:
UDK: 340.12:92
Pages: 56-64
Language: russian
Section: LAW
Keywords: law, personal rights, collective responsibility, human rights, social responsibility, law-governed state, continuous progress theory, formula of progress, legal progress.
Abstract
The article analyses the political and legal ideas of M. M. Kovalevsky, the author of the continuous progress theory, concepts of social and collective responsibility. The author studies the doctrine of Kovalevsky on personal rights, his original ideas about a state governed by the rule of law and civic consciousness. The author also considers how M. M. Kovalevsky developed various methods of research of historical, legal and political thought as well as his active scientific and public activities.
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