Slobodan Petroviฤ – Faculty of Social Sciences Belgrade, University of Business Academy in Novi Sad, Serbia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31410/EMAN.2021.401
5th International Scientific Conference – EMAN 2021 – Economics and Management: How to Cope With Disrupted Times, Online/Virtual, March 18, 2021, CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS published by: Association of Economists and Managers of the Balkans, Belgrade, Serbia; ISBN 978-86-80194-43-1,ย ISSN 2683-4510
Abstract:
There is a large number of teachings about the state in legal philosophy and theory; however, even
today in the 21st century, the idealistic and realistic view (teaching) about the state stands out. In the first,
the essence of the state is contained in a surreal environment, and in this regard, this direction emphasizes
what the state should be like. Three views of this direction still dominate today: utopian, natural, legal, and
ethical-cultural. In realistic theories, the state is seen as a phenomenon of the real world in which the essence
is contained in the experiential world, determined by laws. Considering that legal theories about the state are
relatively young because their largest number originated in the 19th and 20th centuries, this contributes to determining
the state as a logically regulated unity of legal norms that regulate the behavior of people in society.
In this paper, the emphasis is placed on presenting the modern point of view of the utopian, natural law,
ethical-cultural, sociological, and political point of view on the state today. The modern state is considered
as an institution within which modern social theories operate.
Keywords:
State, Theory of the state, Natural law, Utopia, Legal philosophy, Society.
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