Role and place of natural legal thinking in integrative approach to law

Natural and positive legal thinking is considered in the context of overcoming its unilateral approach to law through the synthesis of the knowledge available. The author analyzes the features of natural legal thinking in terms of the requirement arising in the course of the historical development and the possibility of natural law to become positive. Besides, the researcher supports a view of O. Höffe on objectively existing relationships between positive law and positive morals. The paper notes the non-antagonistic nature of contradictions between different interpretations of the substance of law. In addition, the author emphasizes the prospects and relevance of integrative methods when the established views on the essence of law are sufficiently developed, and there is a need for the synthesis of the available unilateral opinions on the law.