Cognitive methods in philosophy of law

Methods of cognition in science are characterized by their diversity and state of constant dialectical development. In addition, disadvantages or qualitative properties of one influence the development of the other and vice versa, indicating the interdependence between the method and the object of cognition. The method as the position of human knowledge to the object under study determines the progression from ignorance to knowledge, the effectiveness of research of science subject in the field of its object. The methods used by philosophy of law as a science are the ways of cognition that are used or may be used in scientific research of law in the philosophical aspect. When considering the methods of cognition in philosophy of law it seems legitimate to use fragmentarily almost all pre-existing methods in their creative refraction, that is, maintaining and creatively developing their beneficial properties for the philosophical comprehension of law. Special attention should be paid to such methods as libertarian juristic, positivistic, phenomenological, dialectical materialist, pragmatic, sociological, existentialistic. However, in philosophical cognition of law the preference is given to the dialectical materialist method.