Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; PART I Introduction: An Approach to Justice 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; Prt 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; Notes; Name Index; Subject Index.

This major philosophical work, by one of the world's leading public intellectuals, constructs a new theory of justice, not from abstract ideals or notions of what perfect institutions and rules might be, but from what the results of a system are practically, in the world