a critical evaluation on the concept of justice in planning process

ack to the limited contents of minimalist state approach and rule of law; emphasizes on
liberties rather than on equalities; intensification of global capital; NGO actions against
globalization; affects of environmental problems on whole global society and
international organization mechanisms directed toward decreasing these affects. Against
the economic, cultural and social fields basing on the spread and intensity of liberalism
on the world with is economic and political dimensions and developments of concepts
of “rights, liberties, equality, interest” on these fields, there are still some unsolved
problems; today. These problems can be listed as:
1) There is tension between the equality side of political liberalism (legal) and the
mechanism basing on the free competition among the unequal individuals of economic
liberalism. The concrete results of this tension is legal liberalism and liberal rule of law
becoming meaningless by accepting everyone equal and giving equal political rights
and freedoms to them, in other words making them equal in front of laws. Aim of
liberal rule of law to obtain the individual’s happiness, to protect the honor of humanity
and individual rights turns into an unpracticed project because of reasons caused by
economic liberalism.
2) Because it involves justice equality, individuals’ having the same equalities is an
important subject. Discourse saying that political equalities are the first step in the
performance of justice is accepted prevalently. There is no convention on the other hand
about the subject what equalities should involve in economic justice 29 . The thing that is
revealed by the <strong>evaluation</strong>s basing on liberties and equal rights is that one’s rights are
responses to the other’s obligations. This shows that the duties of the state and the
political institutions and the obligations of citizens in the provision of economic and
political rights are determined by historical, cultural, social processes. The economic
distribution system established among citizens where every person is accepted equal
and free are determined and practiced according to time, space, ethic and social cultural
values and also practices within given time and place.
In this context, there are certain points in balancing antagonism among rights
and liberties when distinguishes between “liberal rule of law” and “social rule of law”
are taken as fundamental principles, such as; whether society or individual is taken as
basic subject; whether priority is given to political values or economic values; how
29 This subject gains clearance in the arguments about different justice theories discussed in the previous
part. It is a subject without any reconciliation on production relations, distribution relations and how it
will be realized with an arrangement between these two subjects.
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