Dilemas de la aplicación de principios moralmente significativos en la construcción de una sociedad justa desde la perspectiva del liberalismo

When addressing economy, the needs and full access of every agent to the markets arise as essential variables. The blending of these two factors in the search for the most efficient solution to scarcity needs to take into account moral aspects, such as the agents’ freedom and the guarantees provided so that everyonecan reach a good life. The moral dimension of this issue is particularly interesting because it demands the presence of another agent: the State. In its role as the systems’s regulatory body, it is able to correct that distortion through a criterion of justice aimed at making laws to provide guarantees to all of the agents. This paper is a reflection on the possibility to build an acceptable social justice criterion from the perspective of John Rawls and Thomas Scanlon, two authorities on this topic, taking into consideration Juan Francisco Lison’s and Faviola Rivera Castro’s criticism to their proposal.