The problem of modernization of ethical and legal public consciousness

Abstract

The article analyzes the nature of the relationship between ethics (understood as a sphere of social and human activity) and law. Both ethics and law are forms of normative regulation. Ethics is a form of non–institutional, and law, on the contrary, is an institutional normative regulation. Ethics arises with the emergence of man and society, and law appears with the emergence of the state. The development, application and scope of norms in ethics and law are fundamentally different. For centuries, relations in Kazakh society have been based on openness, reciprocity, cooperation, and altruism. Today, along with the market economy, such phenomena as individualism, egoism, and the cult of enrichment began to penetrate, which began to destroy traditional ethics and its values. In order to preserve Kazakhstan not only in its state sovereignty, but also in its identity, the task of modernization (transformation) of the ethical and legal consciousness of citizens arises. First of all, ethical, since ethics is the basis for the stability and stabilization of society. Modernization does not mean abandoning the past, but is the preservation of everything positive in the past and its synthesis with the positive of modernity.