Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Orientations
- Part I Poor Health: Social Justice and Mutual Recognition
- Part II Poor Housing: Social Justice and Mutual Understanding
- Part III Poor Food: Social Justice and Mutual Respect
- Chapter Five Unfed Children
- Concluding Remarks
- Chapter Six Law, Interpretation, and Value
- Concluding Remarks: Mutualizing Respect
- Part IV Poor Spirits: Social Justice and Articulacy
Concluding Remarks: Mutualizing Respect
from Part III - Poor Food: Social Justice and Mutual Respect
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Orientations
- Part I Poor Health: Social Justice and Mutual Recognition
- Part II Poor Housing: Social Justice and Mutual Understanding
- Part III Poor Food: Social Justice and Mutual Respect
- Chapter Five Unfed Children
- Concluding Remarks
- Chapter Six Law, Interpretation, and Value
- Concluding Remarks: Mutualizing Respect
- Part IV Poor Spirits: Social Justice and Articulacy
Summary
Perhaps it is just here that Dworkin’s understanding of the nature of law as interpretation and of interpretation itself as necessarily involving both ethical and moral values comes fi nally into play.
If some malnourished indeed famished Paris street children are understood, however destitute, as nonetheless persons necessarily embodying a public sovereign good as well as the capacity for exhibiting certain basic minimum capabilities, then among the essentials they still may be properly held to lack is the self-respect which the rule of law in their societies must protect. More simply, destitute Paris street children lack many essentials, and among these missing essentials precisely as persons is proper self-respect.
Accordingly, still a further informal suggestion for helping in the renewed reflection on the nature of social justice today may be put once again in a preliminary way as follows:
(SJ.3) Understanding social justice with respect to destitute street children requires resourceful persons to extend their own exigencies of self-respect for themselves as persons bearing a public sovereign good to all the utterly impoverished persons around them and especially to unnecessarily destitute street children.
Such mutualizings of self-respect can certainly help transform the public perceptions of destitute street children as those persons who not only lack sufficient self-respect, but as those radically impoverished persons who need to develop a proper sense of self-respect.
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- Moments of MutualityRearticulating Social Justice in France and the EU, pp. 112 - 114Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2012