The idea of justice /
Sen, Amartya, 1933-
The idea of justice / - London : Penguin, 2010. - xxvii, 468 pages ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
This major philosophical work, by one of the world's leading public intellectuals, constructs a new theory of justice, not from abstract ideals or notions of what perfect institutions and rules might be, but from what the results of a system are practically, in the world.
9780141037851 9780141037851: £10.99 0141037857
GBB039068 bnb
015510544 Uk
Rawls, John, 1921-2002 --Criticism
Justice (Philosophy)
Justice.
Philosophy, Southeast Asian
Civil society
Social contract.
320.011 SEN
The idea of justice / - London : Penguin, 2010. - xxvii, 468 pages ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
This major philosophical work, by one of the world's leading public intellectuals, constructs a new theory of justice, not from abstract ideals or notions of what perfect institutions and rules might be, but from what the results of a system are practically, in the world.
9780141037851 9780141037851: £10.99 0141037857
GBB039068 bnb
015510544 Uk
Rawls, John, 1921-2002 --Criticism
Justice (Philosophy)
Justice.
Philosophy, Southeast Asian
Civil society
Social contract.
320.011 SEN