- Author:
Andrzej Stoiński
- Institution:
Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
- Year of publication:
2016
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
51-65
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/siip201603
- PDF:
siip/15/siip1503.pdf
Changes of the meaning of „social justice” concept in the face of the welfare state purposes
Since the 40’s of the nineteenth century the term “social justice” has played an increasing role in political reflection. The main subject of this paper is a meaning ascribed to the idea of “social justice” in the face of goals of welfare state. From this point of view very important are various senses of the notion. It can be distinguished in this area at least two related aspects. The first refers to characteristic of the justice itself. It can be described as a virtue, norm or right. The second one applies to the particular type of justice identified with social justice. In this respect relevant are: legal, distributive and retributive (or commutative) justice. Aside from that, social justice is also treated as an idea of equality or solidarity in social environment.
- Author:
Małgorzata Łuszczyńska
- E-mail:
malgorzata.luszczynska@mail.umcs.pl
- Institution:
Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4387-8820
- Year of publication:
2024
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
131-147
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/ppk.2024.02.10
- PDF:
ppk/78/ppk7810.pdf
From Natural Rights to the Dignity of the Human Person. Considerations on the Axiology of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland
The article is a reflection on the issues of natural law. The dominant view in the literature on the subject is that natural law is a kind of matrix that should be duplicated by the legislator in order to prevent legal injustice. According to the Latin paremia: Lex iniusta non est lex (Unjust law is not law), the legislator must take into account unspecified higher- level norms. The aim of the article is to look from a philosophical perspective at the axiological foundations of the Polish legal order in the context, primarily, of the sources of law. According to the author of the article, in modern times the rationalism of natural law is becoming apparent, and its religious foundations will not necessarily be acceptable in a culturally pluralized society. The legal analysis method was used, the historical-legal method (in terms of examining the evolution of legal ideas underlying individual constitutional regulations) and the hermeneutic method in relation to the examination of the Constitution as a product of culture, not so much in the linguistic, but in the social, cultural and historical layer. The analysis of applicable legal provisions also forced the use of the formal and dogmatic method.