Improvement of political institutions as a possibility for the development of moral persons

Abstract

Rawls’s egalitarian conception has among its objectives to regulate economic and social inequalities, limiting class gaps, poverty and the struggles for covering basic needs. With the argumentative support of justice as Rawlsian equity, we will try to offer strong reasons on (about the following statement): It would have to be one of the fundamental functions of the State to guarantee the covering of basic needs that allow a dignified life to all its co-associates or, in other words, one of the functions of the State would have to be to guarantee the fundamental social rights of all its co-associates.The thesis will be fundamentally based on contractarian theory, since it is intended to make evident the fundamental role of institutions in the development of moral persons. In this instance, it is assumed that only through the State is how citizens can be guaranteed a minimum of well-being that covers their basic needs and, in that sense, their real and effective political participation. We dare to affirm that in case of non-compliance: “the State will have broken the pactâ€, which in turn would have to involve a whole series of effects in favor of the co-associates. Precisely, the doctrine of the social contract, in our modern states, would have to be considered as one of the strongest argumentative lines in contemporary political philosophy, and which contributes to confer legitimacy on all social and legal systems, as well as to delegitimize social structures that do not agree with a reasonable and fair foundation.