Abstract
The lecture was dedicated to the analysis and critics of selected political-philosophical concepts of the Russian thinker Ivan Il'in. The explication of his notion of natural law and its relation to both positive law and moral is a basis for reflections on to what extent the state shall enforce a particular moral or maintain value neutrality and what the relationship between state and society is.
These problems are treated through the prism of Il'in's concepts of equality, democracy and patriotism. After "formal" and "creative" democracy being compared it seems that Il'in's notion of democracy requires shared goods and common values.
Thus his work can be interpreted as polemics with liberal attitude towards man, society and state. Therefore, it is set into the context of Western polemic between liberalism and republicanism.