Direitos sociais, mínimo existencial e democracia deliberativa

Abstract

The present work aims to develop a theory of social rights, based in philosophy and economics. It analyzes the theories of authors like Cass Sunstein, Robert Nozick, John Stuart Mill, Michael Sandel, Michael Walzer, John Rawls, Bruce Ackerman and Jürgen Habermas, building a model based in communicative action and democratic participation, where the social minimum occupies a prominent place. The work structures interpretive guidelines that can assist the interpreter in his job, always against the expansive theories, which focus on the budget exhaustion. It must be understood that social benefits are part of the complex relationships revenue-expenditure, which, in the contemporary state, means that a number of people contribute, unwittingly, that the Government act to improve the situation of others, regardless of the reasons that frame of inequality. The point is complex and can not be built without considerations of justice and, particularly, without all the arguments are accessible to the citizen, the basic construction of the democratic process itself, which moves society