SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUES

Social Justice Issues

Social Justice Issues

Introduction

Social justice is the set of decisions, rules and principles which are considered reasonable for the type of organization of society in general or where appropriate, as according to a social group. Therefore this justice includes the type of objectives which must be prosecuted, defended and supported; and the types of social relationships considered acceptable or desirable, so as to describe a standard of legal justice. A standard of justice is that which is considered more reasonable for a given situation. Reasonable means that some action is defensible to others regardless their interests or personal opinions, that is, from an impartial perspective, and to justify something you have to give compelling reasons for others to share and understand. (Rawls, 2005)

It is also a term used to refer the conditions for the development of a relatively egalitarian society in economic terms. It includes all the decisions, rules and principles concerned to ensure reasonable working conditions and decent living for all people. Scholars argue that social justice is an ideal scenario that can only be defined through the concrete fact of social injustice. Some scholars argue that the term "social justice" corresponds to the "distributive justice" of Aristotle, while the concept of "commutative justice" of Aristotle, and corresponds to the classical idea of justice in modern societies. (Rawls, 2005)

Some of the topics of interest to social justice and social issues are social equality, equal opportunities, welfare state, the issue of poverty, income distribution, employment rights, etc.

History

Historically the concept of social justice appears as a direct response to what in the nineteenth century was called the "social question", i.e. the growing unrest and claims of workers. (Wolff, 2007)

The term "social justice" was first used by the Sicilian priest Luigi in England in the late nineteenth century between the British Fabian socialists, from a strong ethical component: "rational conviction and inspired by the ethical force for social justice ". The concept became the British Labor Party and was accepted and taken up by the Liberal government through its emerging Trade Minister David Lloyd George, whose stated goal was "social justice".(Wolff, 2007)

Philosophy Of Law And Social Justice

The defense of the principles of justice is usually done by way of rational argument, based on four types of argument: practical, by analogy, ethics and identity. (House, 2003)

The idea of social justice lies at the "state of nature" or own contractarian original position of dealing with Rousseau and some of the classic [citation needed] and the 'reflective equilibrium' of the principles of justice Rawls: liberties basic difference principle and affirmative action and positive discrimination based on justice understood as fairness, an issue that has been discussed and partially solved by the principle of equal opportunities, but not developed until the actions and legislative implications of humanist movements around discrimination, freedom and the social encyclicals: the distribution of the fruits of development and human dignity. (House, 2003)

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