The idea of justice
/ Amartya Sen
. — New Delhi : Penguin books, 2010 rep., c2009.
xxviii,415p. 468 p. 23 cm.
Book Description Synopsis Is justice an ideal, forever beyond our grasp, or something that may actually guide our practical decisions and enhance our lives? In this wide-ranging book, Amartya Sen presents an alternative approach to mainstream theories of justice which, despite their many specific achievements have taken us, he argues, in the wrong direction in general. At the heart of Sen's argument is his insistence on the role of public reason in establishing what can make societies less unjust. But it is in the nature of reasoning about justice, argues Sen, that it does not allow all questions to be settled even in theory; there are choices to be faced
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction An Approach to Justice
PART ONE
The Demands of Justice
1 Reason and Objectivity
2 Rawls and Beyond
3 Institutions and Persons
4 Voice and Social Choice
5 Impartiality and Objectivity
6 Closed and Open Impartiality
PART TWO
Forms of Reasoning
7 Position, Relevance and Illusion
8 Rationality and Other People
9 Plurality of Impartial Reasons
10 Realizations, Consequences and Agency PART THREE
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