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Politica socială – catalizator al transformării Uniunii Europene într-o societate bine ordonată
Social policy as a catalyst of European Union’s becoming a well‑ordered society

Author(s): Adelin Cristian Dumitru
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Fundaţia »Societatea Civilă« (FSC)
Keywords: European Social Fund; European social policy; Overlapping consensus; Welfare State; Well-ordered society

Summary/Abstract: In this paper I hold that the European social policy is an incentive for the qualitative leap of the European Union towards a well-ordered society, characterized by an overlapping consensus. I will follow Rawls’ account of these concepts, as they have been put forward in his Theory of Justice and in his subsequent works. I hold that not only this is what should happen, but also that the actual trends deem this scenario plausible and viable (correspondingly, I hold that European Union’s becoming a well-ordered society is desirable and that its social policy is what deems the transition feasible).

  • Issue Year: XXIII/2015
  • Issue No: 186/4
  • Page Range: 92-102
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Romanian