Justice is a critical dimension to the configuration of the political order and human life in society. Hence, it is necessary to ask what kind of justice corresponds to a social state. He comes here on an issue that has occupied the philosophical reflection, political and moral of the deepest thinkers, from Plato. Even focusing on the aspect of social justice, we should begin by distinguishing between a theory of justice that brings us closer to describing what we think is a just and a consideration of what people think is right. At the theoretical level, one might think, with Plato, the pursuit of justice is eternal quest for happiness, which moves the problem to know what is happiness. The Roman jurists established that justice is giving each his own. And the rationalist natural law stood in the orbit of human nature, endowed with reason, which is to say that just acts should be the principles that one would like them to be generally applicable to all individuals. Positivist rationalism of the nineteenth century led to a legal relativism, which denies the existence of justice applies to all times and places that came to culminate in the twentieth century, the grand project of Hans Kelsen to develop an autonomous legal science, independent Policy.
The underlying idea of justice which is more valuable in the modern conception of an advanced social state, as defined in our Constitution. Without freedom and democracy there is no prosperity possible for many services and grants can provide a paternalistic state. It therefore seems appropriate to take a course at the Escorial, where through conferences and round tables, a number of professionals and experts debate the justice and the rule of law.
DIRECTOR
Luis González Seara, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the Complutense University. Former Minister of Universities and Research.
SECRETARY
Lorenzo Navarrete, a professor at the Complutense University. Dean of the College of Political Scientists and Sociologists of Madrid.
COORDINATOR
Eduardo Crespo Suárez
SPONSOR
Fundación Ankaria
