MOTIVATION OF THE LAWFUL BEHAVIOR OF A PERSON AS A RESULT AND THE PROBLEM OF THE LEGAL EDUCATION

Abstract

The author has provided the initial elements of the justification of the possibility of using such contrary terminology as “legal education” and “legal anti-education” with the reference to the problem of significant impact on a person in the process of the legal socialization, not only positive, but also negative phenomena of legal reality.

It has been noted that legal education is one of the essential factors in the formation of the motivation of lawful behavior. In the narrow sense “legal education” is an activity aimed at achieving such desirable (expected) social outcomes as raising the level of legal awareness and legal culture of a person, social group, and society. In the broad sense, “legal education” is the influence of any phenomenon of the legal system of society on the legal awareness, legal culture of a person (people). At the same time, the notion of “legal system of society” covers only the system of phenomena that reflect the legal organization of society, that is, “negative” legal phenomena unlike “positive” one in the logic of things are not and can not be its elements. Legal anti-education involves the destructive effect of negative phenomena of legal reality (“legal life of society”) on the person’s legal awareness, which leads to its deformation, the development of mass legal nihilism and, accordingly, to lower the level of legal culture of society, since its precondition and mandatory element is “positive legal awareness” of citizens (its alternative – “nihilistic legal awareness”).