WORLD SOCIAL JUSTICE DAY
In 2007, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed February 20 as World Social Justice Day. They based this decision on the assertion that global justice is a fundamental principle for peaceful and prosperous coexistence , and that it constitutes the core of their own mission to promote development and human dignity.
This term, found in 18th-century writings, becomes more important from the mid-19th century, with the use made by Catholic thinkers, and especially the Jesuit priest Luigi Taparelli, considered one of the founders of the social doctrine of the Church.
Decades later, at the end of the 19th century, the term social justice was used again in England by English Fabian socialists. In Fabian socialism, social justice plays the role of ethical purpose par excellence, to guide social evolution through non-revolutionary changes towards a system of social democracy. Other countries such as France and Argentina adopt this concept in their postulates of social democracy.
In 1931 he fully joined the social doctrine of the Catholic Church, as a limit that promotes the distribution of wealth to society, and in 1937 where it is prescribed that the realization of social justice depends on the promotion of the dignity of the human person.
As moral theology, its definition reaches beyond the social contract: "the goods of this world are originally intended for all", which forms a set of principles, criteria of judgment and guidelines of action, "a commitment to justice according to the function, vocation and circumstances of each", (Sollicitudo rei socialis, Juan Pablo II PP).
The Word Tree in Biti Biti (Senegal)
A model of moral philosophy has already been built for civil society and has been incorporated into the social structure through social sciences, that is, with contributions and points of view of multidisciplinary techniques, varied.
Despite having diverse visions, there are common elements of consensus that remain in contemporary meanings: the duty of the state to distribute certain minimum vital means (such as economic, social and cultural rights), the protection of human dignity and affirmative actions to promote equal opportunities.
Social Justice is a value that promotes equal respect for the rights and obligations of each human being in their society. Social Justice focuses on the fair and equitable distribution of basic goods and services necessary for the development and belonging of a person to society, such as socio-affective welfare, education, health and human rights.
From the Kassumay Foundation we share the values that underpin and promote this broad and complicated concept, claiming the global framework where policies and actions relating to the subject should be implemented, beyond local interventions, which however must be the embryo to be able to expand the application of this Global Justice.
This term, found in 18th-century writings, becomes more important from the mid-19th century, with the use made by Catholic thinkers, and especially the Jesuit priest Luigi Taparelli, considered one of the founders of the social doctrine of the Church.
Decades later, at the end of the 19th century, the term social justice was used again in England by English Fabian socialists. In Fabian socialism, social justice plays the role of ethical purpose par excellence, to guide social evolution through non-revolutionary changes towards a system of social democracy. Other countries such as France and Argentina adopt this concept in their postulates of social democracy.
In 1931 he fully joined the social doctrine of the Catholic Church, as a limit that promotes the distribution of wealth to society, and in 1937 where it is prescribed that the realization of social justice depends on the promotion of the dignity of the human person.
As moral theology, its definition reaches beyond the social contract: "the goods of this world are originally intended for all", which forms a set of principles, criteria of judgment and guidelines of action, "a commitment to justice according to the function, vocation and circumstances of each", (Sollicitudo rei socialis, Juan Pablo II PP).
The Word Tree in Biti Biti (Senegal)
A model of moral philosophy has already been built for civil society and has been incorporated into the social structure through social sciences, that is, with contributions and points of view of multidisciplinary techniques, varied.
Despite having diverse visions, there are common elements of consensus that remain in contemporary meanings: the duty of the state to distribute certain minimum vital means (such as economic, social and cultural rights), the protection of human dignity and affirmative actions to promote equal opportunities.
Social Justice is a value that promotes equal respect for the rights and obligations of each human being in their society. Social Justice focuses on the fair and equitable distribution of basic goods and services necessary for the development and belonging of a person to society, such as socio-affective welfare, education, health and human rights.
From the Kassumay Foundation we share the values that underpin and promote this broad and complicated concept, claiming the global framework where policies and actions relating to the subject should be implemented, beyond local interventions, which however must be the embryo to be able to expand the application of this Global Justice.
