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082 _a340.11
_bSEN
100 _aSen, Amartya
245 4 _aThe idea of justice:
_b'A major aduance in contemporary thinking' /
_cby Amartya Sen
260 _aNew Delhi:
_bPenguin Books Ltd,
_c2010.
300 _axxvii,468p.;
_c20cm.
505 _aContents; 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.
520 _aThis 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
650 _aCivil rights-Philosophy, Human rights-Philosophy, Justice, Administration of-Moral and ethical aspects, Social ethics Social justice-Philosophy
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