Saturday, January 12, 2013
411. How does society ensure social justice? (part 1)
(Comp 411) Society ensures social
justice when it respects the dignity and the rights of the person as the proper
end of society itself. Furthermore, society pursues social justice, which is
linked to the common good and to the exercise of authority, when it provides
the conditions that allow associations and individuals to obtain what is their
due.
“In brief”
(CCC 1943) Society ensures social justice by providing the
conditions that allow associations and individuals to obtain their due.
To deepen and
explain
(CCC 1928) Society ensures social
justice when it provides the conditions that allow associations or individuals
to obtain what is their due, according to their nature and their vocation.
Social justice is linked to the common good and the exercise of authority. (CCC
1929) Social justice can be obtained only in respecting the transcendent
dignity of man. The person represents the ultimate end of society, which is
ordered to him: What is at stake is the dignity of the human person, whose
defense and promotion have been entrusted to us by the Creator, and to whom the
men and women at every moment of history are strictly and responsibly in debt
(John Paul II, SRS 47).
Reflection
(CCC 1930) Respect for the human person entails respect for
the rights that flow from his dignity as a creature. These rights are prior to
society and must be recognized by it. They are the basis of the moral
legitimacy of every authority: by flouting them, or refusing to recognize them
in its positive legislation, a society undermines its own moral legitimacy (Cf.
John XXIII, PT 65). If it does not respect them, authority can rely only on
force or violence to obtain obedience from its subjects. It is the Church's
role to remind men of good will of these rights and to distinguish them from
unwarranted or false claims. [IT
CONTINUES]
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