Contributions to the Theory of Recognition

In multicultural societies social justice seems to be directly proportional to the cultural patterns and levels of moral recognition relations prevailing between subjects delimited by the plurality of axiological orientations on well-being and social contribution capacities. But if affection for place has been particularly capable of social production of meanings modulation of instrumental rationality and moral demands for recognition of this particular affective relationship as a moral impulse to conceptions of good living and legal claims as explained in the case of the Caiçaras of Trindade beach then this necessary exegetical opening also seems to depend on the affective interest in the subjects' relationships with the natural environment.