Rationalistic doctrine of law in the German enlightenment

The emergence of rationalistic views as a negation of medieval scholasticism was based on the recognition and exaltation of the value of human personality. This determines the specific feature of rationalism, which recognized extreme individualism in the social essence of a person, that idea had been expressed earlier in the doctrines of law of Grotius and Hobbes. These theoretical positions explained the priorities in the interaction and the balance of interests of the individual and society, attempts to harmonize them emphasized the dual nature of rationalistic political science. The deepest roots of dualism in political law theory, rationalistic philosophy in general, are rooted in the artificial separation of nature and society and the dismemberment of the natural and social content in the essence of man. Then the arising contradictions of individual consciousness and prevailing views and attitudes in the existence of human relations resulted in natural law. Therefore, reflection and rational thinking are the indisputable moral foundation of the natural law ideological concept.