Justice, Science and Sociology of Economic Systems: Transformation of Revelation into Dogma

Abstract

The subject of the study is the transformation of the concept of justice. The object of the study is to identify the content of the concept of «Justice» depending on the cultural and historical context. The authors consider in detail several interrelated parts of humanitarian research with special emphasis on the transformation of thinking patterns: virtue and justice Post-Newtonian transformation of science; Prophet and teacher: from revelation to dogma; Insight, conversion and the sociology of non-capitalism. The article examines and compares the changes that have occurred in the ideas of justice, economic development, and science. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the problem of the correlation of «moral luck» and «moral catastrophe» as components of the very concept of justice. The novelty of the research lies in the hypothesis put forward by the authors, which consists in the fact that the transformations that happened to the ideas of social justice in some way correspond to the transformation of the European sciences created by the Royal Society of London during the time of Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke. The main conclusion was that there is one difficulty in actualizing the object of theoretical research — the presence of «invisible» transformations of the idea of Justice that involves implicit retrospection and «tipping into the past» of current ideas about morality and justice.