TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sen,Amartya
TI  - The idea of justice
SN  - 9780674036130 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - JC578 .S424 2009
U1  - 320.011 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - Rawls, John,
KW  - Justice
KW  - Social contract
KW  - Ethics
N1  - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references; 	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
N2  - 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
ER  -