HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE THEORY OF JUSTICE IN FOREIGN SOCIAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL RESEARCHES
The review article presents foreign socio-philosophical studies of the theory of justice. The historical genesis of the theory of justice is shown. It was revealed that these theories reflect existing social relations, while helping to build them, and also that history has a tendency to see an inextricable link between justice and law. It is noted that at the present stage of the development of society, the theory of social justice is developed and widely represented in the concepts of socialists and liberals, communists, social democrats and utilitarians, as well as in the concept of libertarians.