Socio-Philosophical Research on the Problem of Classification of Legal Assessments and Legal Values

The scientific article presents the results of socio-philosophical study of one of the unresolved problems in many evaluation-value theories, namely, the problem of creating a unified classification of values and evaluations. In this context, the problem of classification of legal values and legal evaluations is not an exception. Classification of legal values as opposed to the classification of legal evaluations is a sufficiently researched topic in modern philosophy of law and jurisprudence. However, in social philosophy the issue of classification of the concepts of “legal values” and “legal assessments” has not been the subject of a separate study. In order to conduct this classification, it is necessary to thoroughly understand the content of these concepts. Legal values and legal assessments are defined by means of the generic concepts of “social values” and “social assessments”. In addition to the classical definition in the socio-philosophical study of legal values and legal assessments, contextual definition and comparative analysis are applied. As a result, the problem of classification of legal assessments and legal values is solved through social-philosophical understanding of existing classifications of these concepts and proposing their own variants of classification.