State authority as a philosophic and legal phenomenon: basic theoretical models
The aim of the research is to reconstruct and reveal heuristic potential of basic theoretical models of the phenomenon of state authority. In the introduction it is defined metaphysical bases of authority as a philosophic and legal phenomenon. Social and economic explanations of the nature of authority are criticized. In the article it is shown that the source of authority lays not in configuration of social relations but in ontology of human subjectivity that determines both social inequality and personal dynamics by means of an opportunity for self-control. The main part of the article deals with revealing and analyzing of basic theoretical approaches in consideration of authority. Theoretical and prognostic potentials of the stated approaches are justified. The problem of a subject of relations of authority is defined and solved. Special attention is drawn to consideration of dynamics of elite as a subject of authority. In the article it is shown the tendency of elite to get beyond social control and to exercise their power not for the sake of the nation and the state they are intended to. Close and deeper causes for this process are revealed. In the article it is defined and solved a problem of a state, sources of its origin and its meaning for modern social life. Basic theoretical models of a state are considered, their current meaning is shown. Particularly, on the basis of reassessment of Hegelian conception of a state, it is proposed the model of interaction of state and civil society in the beginning of the 21st century. It is specified the problem of exhaustiveness of state potential in the context of global transformations at the turn of the 20th century. In the conclusion of the article it is proved that the idea of exhaustiveness of state potential is considered to be too hasty but conveys the tendency of deep changes in structure and functions of a state in modern political system. The obtained results may be used in the sphere of state management for decision making that meets both the leading tendencies in development of a modern world and invariant arrangement principles of Belarusian society.