The Current debate on justice

Abstract

This article aims to answer very briefly the following questions: What is justice? Does it have more to do with the rules or with the purposes, more with the reason or with the heart? Is the justice built primarily on the defense of the individual or the defense of the community interests? Are there intermediate positions in this debate on justice or are we dealing with irreconcilable positions? The current debate on justice is not a matter only of philosophers, because depending on the perspective we take, we will assign a different role to the State, the community and the individual in achieving fairer societies. It is a crucial time for humanity, in which justice, sustainability and peace come into a play, because of a global crisis as a result of a crisis of values. We need to educate for justice and this requires a good dose of rationality and an enormous empathy and sensitivity, a stubborn defense of the individual and a reconstruction of the communities in which he learns virtuously taking care of others.