Justice as Right Relationship to Knowledge

Sor Juana's advocacy for women's education was rooted in justice: she argued that intellectual capacity is universal and that restricting knowledge based on gender or social status violates human dignity. Her tradition connects justice directly to epistemology—who gets to think, speak, and contribute shapes truth itself. When navigating multiple traditions, this framework demands examining who is silenced and whose knowledge is dismissed. Authenticity across traditions requires justice: it means creating space for perspectives from marginalized communities, questioning traditions that exclude particular groups from intellectual participation, and recognizing that distorted truth results from distorted access. This concept invites practitioners to make explicit the power relationships embedded in how traditions are transmitted and whose interpretations are honored, ensuring that integration of traditions serves liberation rather than reinforcing historical inequities.