The basic structure as the object of justice: basic freedoms and the social bases of self-respect
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2318-9800.v19i1p63-83Keywords:
Basic structure, Equals liberties, Social basis of self-respect, John RawlsAbstract
The article starts from the assumption that in order to make a diagnosis of injustices, vulnerabilities and needs of people a critical theory of justice must take as its starting point the real position of people in the world, their contexts of socialization and social relations of interdependence. For this, the primary object of a theory of justice should not be individuals and their capabilities, but the basic structure of society, formed by the major social, economic and political institutions, i.e. intersubjective contexts of interpersonal relations of cooperation social and socialization that are determinant to the concrete life of the persons and especially to the realization of equal liberties and to the formation of the internal sense of what it means to be autonomous.
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