История слова справедливость в русском языке XV-XVIII веков: от правильных поступков до правильных чувств

Неприкосновенный запас. Дебаты о политике и культуре. 2024. Т. 153. № 1. С. 184–196.

Belov M.

The article considers the process of entering the word spravedlivost’ into the Russian language from its first uses in the XV century to the end of the XVIII century. The word spravedlivost’ comes into the Russian language from Polish, and the meanings of the word until the XVIII century are realised in the political-legal and moral spheres. However, in the XVIII century fundamentally different ways of word usage appear, in which spravedlivost’ acquires the meaning of ‘rules for reason’. The emergence of such a meaning is explained by the secularisation and Europeanisation of Russian culture in the 18th century. The Enlightenment's belief in the abilities of the human mind made it possible to define spravedlivost’ as a characteristic of the ability of feeling, which is necessary for a person to correctly cognise both the social and material worlds.

Keywords: история понятий, Justice, Справедливость, Russian intellectual history, интеллектуальная история России, история словарного состава русского языка

Publication based on the results of: Social transformation processes in the context of the changing political communication languages in Russia in the 16th-20th centuries (2024)