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The idea of justice
- Title
- The idea of justice / Amartya Sen.
- Author
- Sen, Amartya, 1933-
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
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- Description
- xxviii, 467 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Presents an analysis of what justice is, the transcendental theory of justice and its drawbacks, and a persuasive argument for a comparative perspective on justice that can guide us in the choice between alternatives.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780674036130
- 0674036131
- 9780674060470
- 0674060474
- LCCN
- 2009014924
- OCLC
- ocn318421063
- 318421063
- SCSB-5486699
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries