Some Notions about the cultural Representations of injustice

Abstract

The question about the origin of the sense of justice in mankind refers to a reflection about the historical process by which mankind approached justice and injustice, from the Neolithic period, through philosophy in ancient Greece, Roman law, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the French Revolution and its struggle against absolutism up to socialist ideals of Marx and political systems that were confronted in the twentieth Century. All this historical retrospect leads inevitably to the consideration that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 is an indelible landmark in the history of mankind. From this document of 1948 emerged the International Tribunals which began to judge crimes against mankind, making mention of Guevara’s words, saying: “If you are able to tremble with indignation every time an injustice is committed in the world, then we are companions”.