The idea of justice
by
 
Sen, Amartya, 1933-

Title
The idea of justice

Author
Sen, Amartya, 1933-

ISBN
9780674036130
 
9780674060470

Personal Author
Sen, Amartya, 1933-

Publication Information
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.

Physical Description
xxviii, 467 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents
Introduction: An approach to justice -- The demands of justice. -- Reason and objectivity -- Rawls and beyond -- Institutions and persons -- Voice and social choice -- Impartiality and objectivity -- Closed and open impartiality -- Forms of reasoning. -- Position, relevance and illusion -- Rationality and other people -- Plurality of impartial reasons -- Realizations, consequences and agency -- The materials of justice. -- Lives, freedoms and capabilities -- Capabilities and resources -- Happiness, well-being and capabilities -- Equality and liberty -- Public reasoning and democracy. -- Democracy as public reason -- The practice of democracy -- Human rights and global imperatives -- Justice and the world.

Abstract
Presents an analysis of what justice is, the transcendental theory of justice and its drawbacks, and a persuasive argument for a comparative perspective on justice that can guide us in the choice between alternatives.

Personal Subject
Rawls, John, 1921-2002. Theory of justice.

Subject Term
Justice.
 
Social contract.
 
Ethics.


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