@book {RefWorks:41, title = {The Idea of Justice}, year = {2009}, note = {Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; HOLLIS no. 011967208}, pages = {xxviii, 467 p.}, publisher = {Harvard University Press}, organization = {Harvard University Press}, address = {Cambridge, Mass.}, abstract = {Introduction: An approach to justice {\textendash} The demands of justice. {\textendash} Reason and objectivity {\textendash} Rawls and beyond {\textendash} Institutions and persons {\textendash} Voice and social choice {\textendash} Impartiality and objectivity {\textendash} Closed and open impartiality {\textendash} Forms of reasoning. {\textendash} Position, relevance and illusion {\textendash} Rationality and other people {\textendash} Plurality of impartial reasons {\textendash} Realizations, consequences and agency {\textendash} The materials of justice. {\textendash} Lives, freedoms and capabilities {\textendash} Capabilities and resources {\textendash} Happiness, well-being and capabilities {\textendash} Equality and liberty {\textendash} Public reasoning and democracy. {\textendash} Democracy as public reason {\textendash} The practice of democracy {\textendash} Human rights and global imperatives {\textendash} Justice and the world.; 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.}, keywords = {1921-2002. Theory of justice, Ethics, Gerechtigkeit, John, Justice, Rawls, Social contract, Soziale Gerechtigkeit, Theorie}, isbn = {9780674036130 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0674036131}, url = {http://hollis.harvard.edu/?itemid=\%7Clibrary/m/aleph\%7C011967208}, author = {Sen, Amartya} }