N the face of increasing risks and threats to state security, training of law enforcement agencies is an essential task of the state. In turn, this makes a very topical issue of value foundations of such training and public service as such. Because this issue remains urgent throughout the humankind history, insofar the classics of world philosophy repeatedly addressed to the issues of the state, state (power and legal) coercion as a particular kind values. Our article is a brief review of Confucius’. Aristotle’s, Plato’s, Somnium Viridarii ’s, Grotius’, Locke’s, Hobbes’, I. Kant’s, G. Hegel’s, Vladimir Soloviev’s and Ivan Ilyn’s ideas of state and state/military service. For these purposes, we use the social-philosophical method, as well as contentand comparative analysis. Most attention we paid to the concepts of state, civil service, civil and military virtues in Somnium Viridarii and in Hobbes’, Locke’s and Hegel’ philosophical doctrines that laid the foundation of modern concepts of civil servants. I show in the framework of these philosophical concepts, law and legal nature of the state strictly determine moral and values foundations of civil service and public enforcement. In the framework of these philosophical theories, legal foundations of state and public life also determine professional qualities of civil servants and employees of power departments, to which these philosophers subsumed only representatives of the administrative elite. In our article, we show both Confucian and Western value foundations of state, law, state coercion, and the public service subjects’ activities formed in the axial time and for this reason, these values are rational categories. In contrast, the moral values of Russian society and government services are irrational nature. We conclude on the need to take into account these civilizational differences during the training of power officers and government officials.

В статье дан краткий обзор классических политико-правовых концепций, рассматриваемых в качестве источников ценностных оснований государственного принуждения и значимых с точки зрения профессиональной подготовки сотрудников силовых органов государства.