Abstract
<jats:p>This article is devoted to the study of one of the priority issues that remains in scientific research, namely, the worldview and methodological understanding of the role and purpose of modern law and its principles through the prism of general legal theory. It has been found that no system can claim to be complete on its own. Only people and certain procedures can do this. In today’s conditions, the effectiveness of law is of particular importance: the feeling of security for everyone, the guarantee of legitimate interests, opposition to arbitrariness in the process of regulating social relations, and the guarantee and provision of a security system in wartime. This is far from a complete list of our expectations from modern law. The success of these reforms depends on the extent to which the law is supported and respected by different social groups and each individual in particular. It has been established that those who apply the law must realize that the law is only a general norm for many possible cases, whereas the right, on the contrary, resolves the actual situation here and now. Unlike the law, it is always specific. Therefore, the right is not embedded in the law in such a way that it can be derived from it. We are convinced that formalizing the search for solutions based on the exhaustive legislative consolidation of its algorithm, as well as the complete formalization of the law itself, is objectively impossible. Therefore, ensuring the unity of law enforcement is the subject of legal discourse, the consolidation of the efforts of doctrine, as well as law-making and law-enforcing structures. This unification of efforts is objectively dictated by the laws of life. The legislator must not forget about the legal content of the law, allowing for inconsistencies in regulation. It has been determined that law is always intellectual tension, the maximum spiritual concentration of all participants in a legal situation. The degree of intellectual tension and spiritual concentration is an indicator of the nature of the existence of law in general and in a specific situation in particular. Only law as spiritual concentration can ensure an adequate and fair resolution of a legal dispute. Law is spirit and intellect. Where they are absent, where interests, cunning, force, hypocrisy, and demagogy prevail, there is no law. Keywords: law, understanding of law, power, human being, society, nature of legal principles, judicial power, legislation, legal system, human rights and obligations, values, harmonization, European integration.</jats:p>