РУАЭСТ (RUAEST)
ON JUSTICE: WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT vs. FYODOR M. DOSTOEVSKY
The research subject is justice in its narrower and broader senses. Human culture is aware of a number of categories that throughout its long history have been referred to the positive values. Such notions as humanism, truth, verity and justice belong here. Many spears have been broken in an atetmpt to define them: the investigations have gone as a hot line all through the history of humankind — starting with Ancient Greece and further on — through the Middle Ages up to the present time. The research method is primarily confined to a legal comparative one, which proves efifcient for the purposes of the present paper. The scholarly innovativeness is in the topic itself, since the paper discusses two of the lesser known approaches to justice — one by the 19century German lawyer, philosopher and philologist W. Humboldt and the other by one of the greatest Russian minds of the 19century F.M. Dostoevsky. The basic conclusion of the article is that it draws atetntion to the problem of justice as it was tackled by W. Humboldt and F. Dostoevsky, and fills in the niche in legal studies.