What do we image of "legal consciousness"?
First of all, it means that man brings law into clear consciousness and then that law lies in the stream of consciouness. The former concerns with an active orientation (according to Ed. Husserl noesis), the latter concerns with the oriented, stationary (noema).
Consciousness in both aspects is accustomed to be treated and mentioned to as located in the internal sphere of human being. Certainly, recent developments in social or political psychology, cultural anthropology, and so on, show possibilities for us to do research these phenomena in terms of science, but not in terms of metaphysics.
But it does not deny, I think, that there still now remain several problems concerned with how an external observer can grasp, understand, and clarify that internal aspects of legal consciousness. To resolve only a part of such huge problems, I tentatively in this paper picked up a few topics of legal consciosness in connection with individuals and social groups as taking position in a wider range of time and space.
