Specificity of approaches to understanding the essence of a human being in modern foreign socio-philosophical thought

Introduction. The article analyses the specificity of approaches to understanding the essence of man in modern Western socio-philosophical thought. The subject of man and the questions of his origin have always been of interest to scientists and researchers. Since the birth of philosophy in antiquity and up to our days, thinkers have tried to at least approach the understanding of what is such a complex social phenomenon as a person.