Philosophy of Criminal Law: Some Necessary Foundations

Abstract: In the article, the philosophy of criminal law shows the appearance of the philosophy of law in the system of criminal-legal sciences, the objective laws specific to criminal-legal phenomena, their occurrence depending on one group of general social laws - correlational-functional laws, the primacy of one group of general social laws - substantive laws in criminal legal norms, the legitimacy of their dependence on civilizations, the primacy of the substantial laws of legal existence in them, the existence of the legality of the criminal law system as well as its own substantial circular circulation, the qualitative signs of law - the violation of equality, justice and freedom are the object of criminal-legal sciences, to free the knowledge of criminal-legal phenomena from a materialistic understanding of history , to determine their inherent substantiality, the logical structure, principles, and ideological character of the philosophy of criminal law, the importance of the philosophy of criminal law in the formation of a democratic civil society, and the need to justify it in the context of history, including dialectical cultural understanding of law and juridical understanding based on a synergistic approach.