De la justicia social a la justicia personal en la filosofía de Julián Marías

Abstract

This work is based on the notion that there are at least three reasons why it is possible to find an innovative conception of social justice in the philosophy of Julián Marías. First, because the author's thinking is not based on a political or a sociological philosophy, but on the metaphysics of the vital reason of his teacher José Ortega y Gasset. Second, because from that metaphysical perspective we reach a point of view that surpasses rationalist, relativistic and irrationalist interpretations that are behind most of the main social justice theories. And thirdly, because from the metaphysics of Marías it can be shown how, eventually, all social justice depends on a previous personal justice, the one that each of us creates insofar as we love our circumstance and our neighbours in the centre of it.