The Problems of Distinguishing the Principles of Justice, Equality and Legality from the Standpoint of their Philosophical Analysis
The article considers the issue of partial coincidence of the content of various principles of law: justice, equality and legality. This is done through the analysis of one of the goals of criminal punishment - the restoration of social justice, taken from the criminal law and socio-philosophical points of view. The extensive and, at the same time, not completely conceptualized appeal of the legislator to the value of social justice, its multidimensionality, the presence of one’s own vision of its content in most people, the need to reach a general agreement on its application is indicated. The reasons for the ambiguous understanding of social justice are two different approaches to its definition, which, being opposite in essence, are equally used in domestic legal, socio-economic and general political discourse.