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Author
Title
The idea of justice / Amartya Sen.
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
Call Number
JC578 .S424 2009
ISBN
9780674036130 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0674036131
0674036131
Description
xxviii, 467 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)318421063
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Gift
Purchased from the income of the Cardozo Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Cardozo Fund
Table of Contents
Introduction
Approach to Justice
1
Pt. I
The Demands of Justice
1
Reason and Objectivity
31
2
Rawls and Beyond
52
3
Institutions and Persons
75
4
Voice and Social Choice
87
5
Impartiality and Objectivity
114
6
Closed and Open Impartiality
124
Pt. II
Forms of Reasoning
7
Position, Relevance and Illusion
155
8
Rationality and Other People
174
9
Plurality of Impartial Reasons
194
10
Realizations, Consequences and Agency
208
Pt. III
The Materials of Justice
11
Lives, Freedoms and Capabilities
225
12
Capabilities and Resources
253
13
Happiness, Well-being and Capabilities
269
14
Equality and Liberty
291
Pt. IV
Public Reasoning and Democracy
15
Democracy as Public Reason
321
16
The Practice of Democracy
338
17
Human Rights and Global Imperatives
355
18
Justice and the World
388
Name Index
451
Subject Index
462