Teoria política da justiça como fundamento ético do estado

Abstract

The paper examines the subject of justice - from the viewpont of modern classical thinking by Rousseau, Hegel and Marx, favorable to recognition of people´s souveranity – in the buildung of an legitimate law and political order. In the path of such assumption it is discussed the possibility of a substantial concept of democratic State which may disrupt with the formalist sense of justice proposed by modern liberalism.