Journal ArticleDOI
Defining Social Justice in a Socially Unjust World
TLDR
In the early twenty-first century, ideological struggles between and within nations have intensified a decade after the end of the Cold War as mentioned in this paper, and today, proponents of diametrically opposed visions of society, secular and religious, march under the banner of social justice.Abstract:
ONE OF THE IRONIES OF THE EARLY twenty-first century is that ideological struggles between and within nations have intensified a decade after the end of the Cold War. Today, proponents of diametrically opposed visions of society, secular and religious, march under the banner of social justice. As desirable social and political goals are depicted in starkly different forms, labels like “good” and “evil” become interchangeable and the meaning of social justice becomes obscured. As it has been for millennia, the concept of social justice is now used as a rationale for maintaining the status quo, promoting far-reaching social reforms, and justifying revolutionary action. If liberals and conservatives, religious fundamentalists, and radical secularists all regard their causes as socially just, how can we develop a common meaning of the term?read more
Citations
More filters
Book ChapterDOI
The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
TL;DR: The central unifying theme in the Manuscripts is the alienation of labour under capitalist conditions of private ownership and its transcendence and abolition under communism as discussed by the authors, which is the genuine resolution of the conflict between man and nature.
BookDOI
Teacher capacity and social justice in teacher education
Carl A. Grant,Vonzell Agosto +1 more
TL;DR: The Tercera edicion as discussed by the authors adopta un nuevo enfoque for lograr el same proposito, a panorama de la formación del profesorado and proporcionar revisiones integrales de las ultimas investigaciones.
References
More filters
Book
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
TL;DR: In Anarchy, State, and Utopia as discussed by the authors, Nozick argues that the state is justified only when it is severely limited to the narrow function of protection against force, theft and fraud and to the enforcement of contracts.
Book
Liberalism and the Limits of Justice
TL;DR: Sandel as mentioned in this paper locates modern liberalism in the tradition of Kant, and focuses on its most influential recent expression in the work of John Rawls, tracing the limits of liberalism to the conception of the person that underlies it, and argues for a deeper understanding of community than liberalism allows.