Hryshchuk O. Human Dignity in Law: Philosophical Aspects.

This dissertation is a comprehensive research of Human Dignity in Law based upon modern legal scientific literature, international and national legal acts. It focused also on the variety of human dignity interpretations represented by philosophers of the last centuries. Human nature is treated as a unity of biological, social and spiritual elements of existence of the human person. The Natural Law is based on spiritual existence of the human person because it opens value of the human being - human dignity. The author gives her own interpretation of human dignity, composed with subject (human being), object, subjection side (intrinsic dignity of human being) and objection side (socially and legally recognized human dignity). At the contemporary stage of development of Ukraine real social and legal progress is impossible without due of defense of human dignity. Therefore human dignity is a source of the Law and human rights.