Somatic Legal Consciousness: Psychological, Teaching, Philosophical and Legal Aspects
Authors:   Degree-Seeking Student of the Department of Pedagogical Education of the North Ossetian State University Named after Kosta Levanovich Khetagurov, Slanov Oleg T. 
Published: April 2024

Purpose. This article is devoted to the problem of somatic law and legal consciousness. The purpose of the study is an interdisciplinary analysis of the implementation of somatic and somatic legal consciousness; consideration of the issue of pedagogical influence in the educational process on the legal education of students, as a way of taking preventive measures to deform the somatic legal consciousness of the individual and forming a correct understanding of the image and value of one’s body; development of a new classification of somatic rights based on the criterion of compatibility with the legal culture of a particular state; consideration of legal aspects of responsibility in the field of realization of somatic rights; analysis of current judicial practice in the field of implementation of legal claims regarding a person’s ability to dispose of his body at his own discretion. Methodology: analysis, synthesis, synergetics, dialectics, epistemology, hermeneutics. Conclusions. The article concludes that the implementation of somatic law should be based on the principle of a responsible attitude towards it. In this regard, the article analyzes the process of forming a person’s responsible attitude towards his body from a psychological and pedagogical perspective. The specifics of body image formation in adolescents have been studied. Deviations and pathologies in the process of a person’s acceptance of himself and his own body are shown, ultimately provoking the desire for radical experiments with it. The paper concludes that there is a need for further scientific development of somatic legal consciousness and the formation in the educational environment of a student’s body image through effective legal education, the formation of students with the necessary legal attitudes, legal ideology, and value ideas — in order to prevent the occurrence of deformations of legal consciousness and spiritual personality defects. The approach to legal socialization must be implemented in the educational process based on a semantic, ideological approach to law. Scientific and practical significance. A qualitatively new perspective on the study of somatic rights through the prism of consciousness made it possible to identify the value foundations of somatic rights and its ideological specifics. The article is aimed at conceptualizing the research activities of scientists, lawyers, teachers and psychologists. The author comes to the conclusion about the need for further scientific and theoretical developments and scientific and practical studies of somatic legal consciousness, their implementation in the educational process in order to form and develop students’ body image, through legal education, modeling the necessary legal guidelines, legal ideology, culture in order to prevent the emergence of deformations of legal consciousness and the achievement of harmony in civil societ y and the rule of law.