History of Political and Legal Doctrines: Features of the Subject and Research Methodology

Aim . To identify specific features of the subject and methodology of the history of political and legal doctrines as legal science and an academic discipline of the theoretical and historical cycle. Methodology . The article uses the method of analyzing the subject of the history of political and legal doctrines (its structural components) and approaches the study of political and legal doctrines and ideologies, as well as the method of their comparative study. Results . The article presents the author’s vision of the subject of the history of political and legal doctrines, as well as a description of the features of fundamental approaches to the study of political and legal doctrines and ideologies that constitute the methodology of this legal science. Research implications . It is concluded that it is impossible to recreate a complete picture of the development of political and legal thought in Russia and foreign countries without the integrated use of materialistic, idealistic, metaphysical, dialectical, historical (concrete-historical) and relativistic approaches to the study of political and legal doctrines and ideologies that constitute the subject of the history of political and legal teachings.