Nature as a Hotbed for the Deployment of Legal Content in Social Relationships: Ontological and Legal Context

The article analyzes the ontological and legal dimension of the doctrine of natural law identifies key determinants that originate from human nature and have a direct impact on the development of legal attributes of legal existence in social relations. The position of the doctrines of J. Locke and T. Hobbes was studied, the place of the natural-anthropological context of law in the formation of «legal man» was revealed. The author found that the natural sources of legal meanings have their own division: cosmic and natural-anthropological law. Cosmic law is related to the natural regulatory processes that take place in universe and man can only contemplate and implement them in social relations. Natural and anthropological origins are associated with a certain fact that is inherent in human nature from birth and is associated with orderly processes. The issue of legal responsibility is a consequence of the contemplation and adaptation of cosmic responsibility which means it’s inevitable and absolute nature. Thus, the law under which person lives is only an implementation of the general cosmic law. The author analyzes the position that the natural-anthropological dimension of modes of legal existence correlates with classical natural-legal doctrines that reveal and substantiate the genesis of legal principles from human nature and its essential features, which are innate and do not depend on the will of the state. The classical doctrines of this direction are the views of T. Hobbes and J. Locke who explain the natural law as such, which directly follows from the human characteristics. The article argues that the natural and anthropological sources of legal reality are located in the content of human nature, namely: in the innate instinctive need to preserve their own existence, in the opportunities provided by the property of freedom, in understanding the need to limit these opportunities through category and contract as natural. law, in the development in the legal consciousness of understanding one's own and another's through property, generalized by the law of property, in characteristics of the mind