Normative Legal Textualityas One of the Modes of Expression of Legal Consciousness

Abstract

The paper offers a philosophical analysis of the phenomenon of legal consciousness. We study one of the modes of legal consciousness - normative legal textuality, since it is a means of transcribing the phenomenon of legal consciousness. Outside of the classical concepts of jurisprudence and philosophy, the following categories were reflected upon: legal consciousness, text, normative legal act, discourse, and author. The subjects in the process of creating a normative legal text are: narrator, author (developer), and addressee. The distinctive feature of the authors of draft legal acts is that their legal status is quite limited compared to the legal status of the authors of any other results of intellectual activity. The addressees of draft normative legalacts are state bodies, while the addressees of texts of normative legal acts are subjects of law. For their addressees, the addressers of the texts of legal acts always remain incognito persons.