Eastern and western legal tradition of justice: genesis

The article is devoted to the problem of the Genesis of understanding the category of justice in Eastern and Western philosophic and legal traditions. The author argues that in modern world justice is represented as a fundamental scientific problem, philosophical and legal value. Under conditions of globalization actual scientific problem is the study of characteristics of understanding of justice in different cultures. In the article the authors conclude about the differences in understanding and interpretation of the concept of "justice” in traditional and post-traditional societies. The reasons that led to differences between eastern and western ways of development of state and law, largely explain these differences. In the early stages of development of society, the world seems to be a syncretic unity, containing both natural processes and relations between people. There is no clear distinction between the world of nature, living and inanimate, and the world of a man. This approach is reflected in mythology of ancient Greek, and ancient east civilizations. If for the eastern civilization, the difference between written laws and justice, however, does not imply the presence of sharp differences between them, in the teachings of the ancient Greek philosophers these categories are sharply contrasted.