The phenomenon of human dignity and the historical aspect of the right to human dignity

The article analyzes the concept of the right of human dignity, human dignity as such and evolution of the formation of legal norms on the territory of modern Ukraine that ensure the realization of the of the right of human dignity. As well, human dignity cannot be considered outside the context of society, because it is society that forms the request for establishing norms and regulating relations in the moral and legal field. However, in the absence of an appropriate level of legal consciousness, and therefore awareness of the moral and categorical apparatus of human rights, dignity cannot exist either. The right to dignity, as well, as other rights, cannot exist outside the boundaries of civil society, but its provision directly depends on the level of legal awareness of both: society and each individual. Therefore, in order to realize the right to human dignity, as complete as possible, there are norms that ensure it. According to the stages of development of society, social relations change, and therefore legal awareness also make changes. There is still debate among scholars about the definition of the right to human dignity and the concept of dignity itself, however, there is still no single approach to definition.Therefore, the scientific potential of researching the right to dignity is inexhaustible, as is the entire spectrum of natural human rights. The right to human dignity is fundamental human right and the dignity stay as well fundamental point and measure for all the complex of human rights. Therefore, the legal regulation of the right to human dignity has undergone changes throughout the entire period of human existence. On the territory of modern Ukraine, the written guarantee of the right to human dignity was recorded for the first time in the contemporary collection of customary law «Ruska Pravda». The modern legal system of Ukraine has an extensive system of norms to ensure the realization of the right to human dignity. However, with the development of research on human dignity as such and the right to human dignity, we can predict the reform of current regulatory and legal guarantees to expand the criteria for the implementation of the right to human dignity.