The concept of social justice is rooted in and directly opposed to the phenomenon of social inequality. It is hypothesized that there exists in society a dominant minority which enslaves the majority of people for perpetuating its own interests, that is, for keeping itself in positions of power and maintaining its social and cultural supremacy. From to intense humanitarian concern for other is a sure index of the operation of the principle of spontaneous social justice, and therefore a clean index of normative upgrading/ social development.