Court, punishment, justice: features of the Hegelian interpretation

The concept of justice is not a central category of the philosophy of law of G.W.F. Hegel. Its content comes to light only while taking into account the whole context of the thinker's teaching on the stages of development of law and legal relations. At the same time, its meaning is manifested as a “cross-cutting” category, which allows revealing the substantial unity of the concept of punishment, analyzed in the section “Abstract Law”, and the concept of the court imposing this punishment, which, according to Hegel, is a link between civil society and the state.