%0 Book %D 2009 %T

The Idea of Justice

%A Sen, Amartya %K 1921-2002. Theory of justice %K Ethics %K Gerechtigkeit %K John %K Justice %K Rawls %K Social contract %K Soziale Gerechtigkeit %K Theorie %X

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.; 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.

%I Harvard University Press %C Cambridge, Mass. %P xxviii, 467 p. %@ 9780674036130 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0674036131 %G eng %U http://hollis.harvard.edu/?itemid=%7Clibrary/m/aleph%7C011967208