04908nam a2200457 a 4500 7904 BD-DhAAL 20230212154321.0 150705s2009 enk b 001 0 eng d GBA942848 bnb 9781846141478 (hbk) �25.00 1846141478 (hbk) 9780141037851 (paperback) OCoLC VBOR ANL BD-DhAAL 303.37201 22 89.06 bcl Sen, Amartya, 1933- 7841 The idea of justice / Amartya Sen. London : Allen Lane ; Penguin Books, 2009, 2010. xxviii, 467 pages, xxvii, 468 pages, 24 cm. Includes bibliographical notes and indexes. Introduction: an approach to justice -- Part I. The Demands of Justice -- 1. Reason and objectivity -- 2. Rawls and beyond -- 3. Institutions and persons -- 4. Voice and social choice -- 5. Impartiality and objectivity -- 6. Closed and open impartiality -- Part II. Forms of Reasoning -- 7. Position, relevance and illusion -- 8. Rationality and other people -- 9. Plurality of impartial reasons -- 10. Realizations, consequences and agency -- Part III. The Materials of Justice -- 11. Lives, freedoms and capabilities -- 12. Capabilities and resources -- 13. Happiness, well-being and capabilities -- 14. Equality and liberty -- Part IV. Public Reasoning and Democracy -- 15. Democracy as public reason -- 16. The practice of democracy -- 17. Human rights and global imperatives -- 18. Justice and the world. "Is justice an ideal, forever beyond our grasp, or something that may actually guide our practical decisions and enhance our lives? Sen presents an alternative approach to mainstream theories of justice, which, despite their many specific achievements, have taken us, he argues, in the wrong direction in general. One of the principal differences between Sen and the dominant contemporary theorists of justice is that they have been concerned primarily, sometimes wholly, with identifying what perfectly just social arrangements might be, rather than clarifying how different realizations of justice might be compared and evaluated." "At the heart of Sen<U+2019>s argument is his insistence on the role of public reason in establishing what can make societies less unjust. But it is in the nature of reasoning about justice, argues Sen, that it does not allow all questions to be settled even in theory; there are choices to be faced between alterative assessments of what is reasonable; several different and competing positions can each be well defended. Far from rejecting such pluralities or trying to reduce them beyond the limits of reasoning, we should make use of them to construct a theory of justice that can absorb divergent points of view. Sen also shows how concern about the principles of justice in the modern world must avoid parochialism and, further, address questions of global injustice." Refugee Studies Unit (RSU), CPJ Book Finder International 7904, 40879 Social justice Philosophy. 12883 Justice, Administration of Moral and ethical aspects. 12884 Civil rights Philosophy. 12885 Human rights Philosophy. 12886 Social ethics. 12364 Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks ddc BK 34950 34950 0 0 ddc 0 303_372010000000000_SEN 0 54758 SCL SCL GEN 2015-07-05 600.00 1 1 303.37201 SEN 3020007904 2019-07-24 2019-07-17 1 2015-07-05 BK 0 0 ddc 0 303_372010000000000_SEN 0 54926 SCL SCL GEN 2015-07-12 600.00 1 3 303.37201 SEN 3020007903 2018-09-30 2018-02-18 2 2015-07-12 BK 0 0 ddc 0 303_372010000000000_SEN 0 56038 SCL SCL GEN 2015-09-21 Development Book Agency 225.00 2 3 303.37201 SEN 3020008354 2025-08-17 2025-08-11 3 2015-09-21 BK 0 0 ddc 0 303_372010000000000_SEN 0 56039 SCL SCL GEN 2015-09-21 Development Book Agency 225.00 0 303.37201 SEN 3020008357 2015-09-21 4 2015-09-21 BK 0 0 ddc 0 303_372010000000000_SEN 0 56040 SCL SCL GEN 2015-09-21 Development Book Agency 225.00 4 11 303.37201 SEN 3020008358 2025-12-21 2025-12-15 5 2015-09-21 BK 0 0 ddc 0 303_372010000000000_SEN 0 56041 SCL SCL GEN 2015-09-21 Development Book Agency 225.00 0 303.37201 SEN 3020008356 2015-09-21 6 2015-09-21 BK 0 0 ddc 0 303_372010000000000_SEN 0 56042 SCL SCL GEN 2015-09-21 Development Book Agency 225.00 0 303.37201 SEN 3020008355 2015-09-21 7 2015-09-21 BK 0 0 ddc 0 303_372010000000000_SEN 0 73140 CPJ CPJ RSU 2023-02-07 Book Finder International 966.12 0 303.37201 SEN 3030040879 2023-02-07 8 966.12 2023-02-07 BK