The recognition that fairness requires honoring diverse sources of knowledge and ensuring all people can participate in creating and validating truth.
Sor Juana demonstrated that knowledge emerges not from a single authority but from dialogue, study, and the integration of multiple perspectives. Epistemic justice addresses how societies distribute the power to know and to be heard as a knower. When fairness is truly universal, it means that women, indigenous peoples, the poor, and the marginalized have their observations, reasoning, and insights counted as legitimate contributions to shared understanding. Sor Juana challenged the notion that truth belonged only to celibate male clergy; she insisted that human beings across all categories possess rational capacity and wisdom worth hearing. This concept affirms that every civilization claiming fairness must create structures where diverse voices contribute to collective knowledge, and where credibility is not predetermined by identity or status.
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