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 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.

• 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
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/60174
• Acceso en línea: https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/60174; http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/58207/
• Palabra clave: 19 Filosofía moderna occidental / Historical, geographic, persons treatment of philosophy; 32 Ciencia política / Political science; 34 Derecho / Law; 99 Historia general de otras áreas / History of ancient world; of specific continents, countries, localities; of extraterrestrial worlds; Distributive justice; Social justice; Human dignity; Merit; Material equality; Affirmative actions; Justicia distributiva; Justicia social; Dignidad humana; Merecimiento; Igualdad material; Acciones afirmativas
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional