Uwagi o sprawiedliwości społecznej i jej zasięgu
Comments on Social Justice and its Scope

Summary/Abstract: The comments on social justice and its scope are set out in four points. The first one discusses the problem of social justice itself and its history. While this concept is relatively young, the idea of justice, to which we refer, obviously goes far into history. The second point discusses the idea of social justice in its historical aspect. The author, however, limits himself to a chosen thread only. He argues that especially in antiquity and patriotism the basic objective sources of social injustice were formulated: property and its borders, slavery and servitude, and the problem of work. Blatant injustices in these areas are the source of the manifestation of social justice in history. The third section presents the main thrust of the discussion on the place of social justice in the traditional division into legal, measurable and distributive justice. The position of social justice within legal justice is, according to the author, possible only with a broad view of this justice. And within the framework of distributive justice only with a narrow understanding of it (economic and partly legal concepts). The fourth point discusses the relationship that must exist between social justice (a condition of social order) and social love. Attention is also drawn to mercy as a social or civic virtue.

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