@article{Novikov_Vicen_Semchuk_2021, title={Socio-legal representation of freedom of conscience}, volume={1}, url={https://lbsherald.org/index.php/journal/article/view/24}, DOI={10.46489/lbsh.2021-1-3-2}, abstractNote={<p>Freedom of conscience is the crucial goal we need to achieve for a sustainable future. The article examines the problems of freedom of conscience in various spheres of public relations. We have considered multiple aspects of this phenomenon: legal, economic, ethical, philosophical, epistemological, social. We paid special attention to the legal aspect of freedom of conscience. Due to this, we analyzed the existing legal guarantees of believers, non-believers and atheists, to determine the prospects for their further development. We have drawn attention to the fact that reducing the problems of freedom of conscience only to the legal aspect leads to the substitution of the worldview principles of a democratic society and to ideologizing. We have analyzed the different views of scholars on freedom of conscience as ethical, moral and personal categories. Based on a comprehensive socio-legal analysis of freedom of conscience, we concluded that the most important aspects of freedom of conscience are social, philosophical and legal. Finally, we argue that freedom of conscience is the basis for sustainable development in meaning of the 10th and 16th SDGs.</p>}, number={3}, journal={Law, Business and Sustainability Herald}, author={Novikov, Vitalii and Vicen, Vlastimil and Semchuk, Yurii}, year={2021}, month={Nov.}, pages={10–16} }