The idea of ​​justice and the right to the example of European tradition

From time immemorial, people strove to call justice, referring, first of all, justice for themselves, and then for the society in which they lived. Of course, each of them understood something of his own by this, but not a single ruler said that he was not striving for justice for his subjects. Over time, the concept of justice changed, including all the most important segments of the population and offering them equality before the law. It seems that today civilization has reached such a level of justice for everyone that has never been before. The author traces how this process has happened over the centuries in European civilization on the example of legal documents that have reached us and some outstanding theoretical works. This book is optimistic, since the author considers progress undoubtedly both in the history of interpretation of the very concept of justice and in the minds of people who wrote legal documents. This position allows us to hope that in the future an understanding of genuine justice and equality will become the lot of all people living on Earth