The idea of justice / Amartya Sen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sen, Amartya, 1933- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Rawls, John.

Justice.

Social contract.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 467 pages)

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Social justice: an ideal, forever beyond our grasp; or one of many practical possibilities? More than a matter of intellectual discourse, the idea of justice plays a real role in how - and how well - people live. And in this book the distinguished scholar Amartya Sen offers a powerful critique of the theory of social justice that, in its grip on social and political thinking, has long left practical realities far behind.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction An Approach to Justice

Part I. 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 II. Forms of Reasoning

7 Position, Relevance and Illusion

8 Rationality and Other People

9 Plurality of Impartial Reasons

10 Realizations, Consequences and Agency

Part III. The Materials of Justice

11 Lives, Freedoms and Capabilities

12 Capabilities and Resources

13 Happiness, Well-being and Capabilities

14 Equality and Liberty

Part IV Public Reasoning and Democracy

15 Democracy as Public Reason

16 The Practice of Democracy

17 Human Rights and Global Imperatives

18 Justice and the World

Notes

Name Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0-674-05457-1

9780674054578 (electronic book)

OCLC:

648759728