The idea of justice / Amartya Sen.

By: Sen, Amartya, 1933-Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Penguin, 2010Description: xxvii, 468 p. ; 20 cmISBN: 0141037857 (pbk.); 9780141037851 (pbk.)Subject(s): Justice | Justice (Philosophy) | Social contractDDC classification: 320.011 LOC classification: JC578 | .S424 2010
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.
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Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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.

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