History of legal science in the context of the evolution of legal thinking

The article considers the history of legal science as a moment of evolution of legal thinking, expressing the basic laws of the latter. According to the author, the most important of the laws that determine the dynamics of scientific knowledge in diachronous retrospective is a phased movement from figuratively associative (pre-predicative) legal thinking to conceptual thinking, which in its development also goes through a series of successive stages. As a result, the main trend in the history of legal science consists in the growth of knowledge, which manifests itself in the transition from a description of atomic legal facts to the identification of patterns that claim to be valid. This, in turn, predetermines the transformation of legal reality constructed by scientific knowledge.