SOCIAL JUSTICE Flashcards
What is Social Justice
Social justice is neither communism nor despotism, nor atornism, nor anarchy, but the humanization of laws and the equalization of social and economic forces so that justice in its rational and objectively secular conception may at least be approximated. It means the promotion of the welfare of the people, the adoption of measures by the government to ensure economic stability of all the competent elements of society, through the exercise of powers underlying the existence of all the governments on the time-honored principle of salus populi est suprema lex. (Calalang vs. Williams)
What does Social Justice ENVISION?
Art.13 Sec.1 & 2, 1987 Consti; Alcantara
It envisions equitable diffusion of wealth and political power for the common good; regulation of the acquisition, ownership, use and disposition of property and its increments; and CREATION of economic opportunities based on FREEDOM of initiative and self-reliance.
What does Social Justice GUARANTEE?
Social justice does not champion division of property of economic status; what it guarantees are equality of opportunity, equality of political rights, equality before the law, equality between values given and received, and equitable sharing of social and material goods on the basis of efforts exerted in their production.
LIMITS of Social Justice
Social justice SHOULD BE USED ONLY to correct an injustice. It must be founded on the recognition of the necessity of interdependence among the diverse units of a society,
