N.I. Palienko on the essence of legal thinking and the methodology of legal knowledge

The study discusses the legacy of the outstanding legal theorist N.I. Palienko in the field of the interrelation between natural-law and positivist types of legal knowledge, analyzes their confrontation and further convergence throughout the history of ideas about law. Being in the same social and spiritual space, types of legal understanding have an objective effect on each other. The ideological debate among the followers of the natural-law and positivist approaches to law in conjunction with other factors that caused changes in social development had a significant impact on the methodological development of legal knowledge, the clarification of concepts and categories of legal science, the new goals and objectives of researchers. The views of N.I. Palienko are highly respected as they reflect methodological pluralism and are based on the identification of the necessary methods of legal knowledge presented in the natural-law and positivist types of legal thinking.