Law and Justice
( Pp. 12-20)

The article is devoted to the phenomenon of justice as a legal ontology. Justice has always been considered as an important component of any state undertaking, and in law it has turned into a principle that created the illusion of impeccability and morality of the normative material. However, justice should not be understood unambiguously as commutative, especially since it is not such in law. The meaning of justice is in its distributivity, so Aristotle’s conclusions about the phenomenon under consideration remain relevant to this day. The article presents the reflections of the great Greeks and modern researchers on the issues of justice in law. The reflections are illustrated by examples from the Criminal Code, analyzed in the context of the phenomenon under consideration and opinions about its ontology.

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