THE IDEA OF SOCIAL HUMAN RIGHTS AS INTERPRETED BY REPRESENTATIVES OF THE SCHOOL OF REVIVED NATURAL LAW IN RUSSIA AT THE END OF THE 19TH – BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURIES

We analyze the representatives’ views of the school of revived natural law on the social human rights problem. We note that a key milestone in the state and legal transformations of Russia at the beginning of the 20th century was the consolidation of civil rights and freedoms for Russian citizens. We establish that representatives of the school of revived natural law developed a theory of individual rights and freedoms in the context of the relationship between the constitutional state with the ethics and morality problems. We doctrinally justify that social rights, along with political rights, occupied an important place in the catalog of human rights classification developed by scientists, due to the fact that they were associated with values such as social justice and social equality. We offer arguments indicating that representatives of the school of revived natural law considered the right to a dignified human existence as the source of social rights emergence, which were a prerequisite for the individual’s social emancipation and an attempt to transform the estate society into a civil one.