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Suum Cuique Tribuere. Some Reflections on Law, Freedom and Justice
Author(s) -
AARNIO AULIS,
PECZENIK ALEKSANDER
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
ratio juris
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1467-9337
pISSN - 0952-1917
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9337.1995.tb00206.x
Subject(s) - rationality , politics , norm (philosophy) , foundation (evidence) , law , democracy , law and economics , sociology , economic justice , epistemology , political science , philosophy
. Moral and theoretical deficiencies of the main foundation strategies in social and political systems (Social Engineering, Foundationalism and Invisible Hand theories) are explained by the necessity of a synthesis of different kinds of rationality, i.e., goal‐rationality, norm‐rationality and rightness and weighing rationality. The anthropological basis of the theory is a distinction between homo finalis and homo socialis . At the institutional level, this conception leads to a synthesis of the rule of law and the welfare state. At the political level, this implies a retonsideration of the principles of democracy and political planning.