SOCIAL JUSTICE

Prepared by:
Jeffrey Angelo Reandelar
What is Social Justice?

• (Wikipedia)
Social Justice is a concept of fair and just relation between
the individual and the society

• (UN Report)
Social Justice is the fair and compassionate distribution of
the fruits of economic growth.

• (Legal Dictionary)
Social justice is justice that follows the principle that all
individuals and groups are entitle to fair and impartial
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Importance of Social Justice in
Business and Market system

Social Justice Dictates that everyone is recognized and

respected for what he/she is, regardless of race, religion,
political connection, or sexual orientation, in the
company’s active fight against any kind of bias, prejudice
and discrimination; that no one is mistreated or short
changed and no one is exploited or verbally abused in
the workplace-domestic helper, factory worker, driver,
gasoline boy, and all others.

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 Social Justice from the
Christian Point of View

Social justice from the Christian point of view

requires the private sector, all business institutions, NGOs
an the government to acknowledge that the greatest
benefits should go to the four(4) L’s:
The least fortunate, least advantaged, the last and
the lost.

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Philippine Constitution 1987,
Art. XIII

Article XIII declares that the state shall promote social

justice, agrarian and natural resources reform, urban land
reform and housing; protect labor; recognize the rights of
every citizen and people’s organization, and adopt an
integrated health development program. It also mandates
Congress to enact a law creating an independent
commission on human rights, with the responsibility
investigation cases of human rights violation.

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 Distribution of Burden and
Benefits

The distribution of burdens in taxation requires

proportionate equality and proportionate equality is not
necessary an equal share but a fair share of carry the
burden of taxes.

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The Way to Distinguish Forms of Social Justice
Issues

Social justice issues can be delineated into

two classes, though they’re often co-
dependent: Inter-Social Treatment and
Unequal Government Regulation.

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 Inter-Social Treatment

This involves treatment of a group(s) of individuals within

the regional and local scale. The foundation for this
unequal treatment is usually due to a personal opinion
about that category(s):
• Racism
• Sexism
• Ageism
• Heterosexism

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 Unequal Government
Regulation

This entails regulations and laws that intentionally or

discriminate any individual or a group(s) from opportunities
and resources based on differences that are unique to this
category(s):
• Poverty (lacking access to food, clean water, and
shelter)
• Death Penalty
• Access to Health Care
• Civil Rights (racism and sexism)
• Access to Education

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SOCIAL DIMENSION
OF PRIVATE
PROPERTY
• SOCIAL DIMENSION
- Concern for the values, norms, rules and roles; one of the
greatest source of influence on human behavior, emanating from the
cultural dimension.

• PRIVATE PROPERTY
- Is a legal designation for the ownership of the property by non
governmental legal entities.

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Relation of Justice to Private
Property

Everyone’s moral right to private property is a

determined ownership, a right to a possession and
disposition of any property. With this, moral right,
no other person except you, the rightful owner, is
entitled to own and use your property and to
dispose of it in whatever manner deem
serviceable.

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Reasons in favor of property
right

• Personal reason
• Moral reason
• Social reason
• Psychological reason

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 Personal Reason

• In claiming a private property, it is necessary

right to exercise personal responsibility and self-
realization towards a more creative
development. Without this personal entitlement
and other forms of private control over material
goods, nobody can be productive. The person
who does not own property can affect his/her
initiative and creativity.

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 Moral Lesson

• Our right to private property favorably provides

us with a sense of independence. In moral
reason, it serves as a protection for our freedom.

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 Social Reason

• By means of property rights, it enables us to

provide support, security and development for
those entrusted to our care, including the family,
household members, employees, and other
dependents. Social reason points out that
property rights extends help to those person
who is need.

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 Psychological rights

• Here, property rights brought about personal

initiative, drive, and enterprise. So if all the
people have in common to them, they show less
interest, that they treat with less care.

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Does private property have a
social dimension?

• The personal, moral, social and psychological

reasons can demonstrate that private property is
indeed a necessary institution, and that it is
basic to normal human lifestyle
• -As means to an end, private ownership is
subservient to higher needs of society, better
known as common good or public welfare.

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What are the reasons why the right
to private property is conditional
right?

• “One may not exercise his right to private

property if, by exercising this specific
entitlement, he does something detrimental or
tend to cause harm to the common good and
public welfare.

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Is our property right conditioned
by our personal need?

• No one is, justified to posses, to own, to keep his

exclusive use what he does not need,
particularly when he knows in conscience there
are many others who are lacking the basic
necessities in life.

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 Are our property right
conditioned by the needs of the
community?
• Yes, the needs of the community also condition
the right to private property, that common good
or the public welfare prevail over private
ownership.

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Universal Destiny of Resources
and Goods of the Earth

• The universal destination of goods means that

the material goods of the earth are not meant to
be owned and used by a powerful few
individuals but, on the contrary, that all residents,
of this planet can equally own and use this
goods in accordance with God’s original plan.
( John Paul II,
1987).

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 Is our property rights
subordinated to other more
fundamental human rights?
• In his encyclical on human behavior, john Paul II (1981)
observes that property right has a social dimension, and
that Christian tradition has never upheld this right to
private property as absolute and untouchable.
– - Whoever takes what is essential for himself is not
violating the right to private property, for those things
taken are his by natural right.
(Vatican Council II, 1965)

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