Unveiling the meaning of social justice in Colombia

Abstract. Through the presentation of a new history of social justice in the global constitutional discourse, this article aims to demonstrate that, despite there is no in Colombia, as in other countries, a constitutional purpose or principle of social justice, the modern notion of justice distribut...

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Autores:: Pérez-Garzón, Carlos Andrés

Tipo de recurso:: Trabajo de grado de pregrado

Fecha de publicación:: 2016

Institución:: Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Repositorio:: Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Idioma:: spa

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Summary:	Abstract. Through the presentation of a new history of social justice in the global constitutional discourse, this article aims to demonstrate that, despite there is no in Colombia, as in other countries, a constitutional purpose or principle of social justice, the modern notion of justice distributive, also called social justice today, is implicit in the Constitution of 1991 because it enshrined as mandatory rules the three main elements of its meaning in the time in which it was promulgated: the principle of social rule of law, the principle of human dignity and the right to a material equality. Thus, social justice must be understood in Colombia in accordance with those three elements, not the Aristotelian sense of distributive justice, and can be achieved only if they are fulfilled.

Unveiling the meaning of social justice in Colombia

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