Justice as Relations in Social Life

Wojciech Dziedziak

Abstract


The study is of a mostly conceptual and scientific-and-research nature, and the analyses contained herein are of a universal character. The article discusses the issue of relations of justice in social life. These relations have been based on the example of the right to life from the moment of conception, as it is the first, basic, and superior right. It began with considerations regarding the notion of justice. As a starting point, the classic definition in the formula “to render to everyone his or her own” (suum cuique tribuere) was adopted. It was emphasized that justice is for every human being. It was stated that justice as a universal value and a principle-norm, from which obligations originate, “builds” relations between entities. The article mostly analyses the relation between entities A and B, where entity A is every human being (the scientific data justifying when a human being originates are also pointed out), and entity B is a holder of legislative authority, always defined as an individual body just because of the considerations of justice, and as such participating in the relationship of justice.


Keywords


justice; natural justice; relations of justice; right to life from the moment of conception

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/sil.2023.32.2.103-115
Date of publication: 2023-06-27 10:36:43
Date of submission: 2022-01-25 12:19:25


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