SOCIAL RIGHTS AND ETHICS. A CONTROVERSIAL VIEW

Abstract

Social rights can be seen as expectations or claims of resources and goods aimed at satisfying the basic needs of people. These needs are usually linked to issues such as physical security, education, health, morale, housing or income. Its claim is of interest to all people, but above all to those most vulnerable in society, whose access to such resources is usually residual, or sometimes, non-existent.

Man is born, grows, reproduces and dies, in society. The State is that society organized politically and legally in a territory, imparting rules that ensure its compliance and social, just and harmonious coexistence. Through its National Constitution, and the substantive legal system of rights and obligations, the state conducts policies aimed at containing the community and expanding the autonomy of those vulnerable groups. Precisely here, it is where social rights break in as a response to inequalities and exclusions generated by economic-social systems, mainly those based on private property as a generator of wealth and the allocation of resources, putting the State and its Community in question, regarding the logic that interferes against the absolute nature of patrimonial rights.