The Idea of JusticeSocial 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
An Approach to Justice | 1 |
The Demands of Justice | 29 |
Reason and Objectivity | 31 |
Rawls and Beyond | 52 |
Institutions and Persons | 75 |
Voice and Social Choice | 87 |
Impartiality and Objectivity | 114 |
Closed and Open Impartiality | 124 |
Lives Freedoms and Capabilities | 225 |
Capabilities and Resources | 253 |
Happiness Wellbeing and Capabilities | 269 |
Equality and Liberty | 291 |
Public Reasoning and Democracy | 319 |
Democracy as Public Reason | 321 |
The Practice of Democracy | 338 |
Human Rights and Global Imperatives | 355 |
Forms of Reasoning | 153 |
Position Relevance and Illusion | 155 |
Rationality and Other People | 174 |
Plurality of Impartial Reasons | 194 |
Realizations Consequences and Agency | 208 |
The Materials of Justice | 223 |
Justice and the World | 388 |
Notes | 417 |
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