Idea of justice
- New York Penguin Books 2009
- xxviii, 468 P 24 cm ; Hard Bound
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pt. I. 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 -- pt. II. Forms of Reasoning -- 7. Position, Relevance and Illusion -- 8. Rationality and Other People -- 9. Plurality of Impartial Reasons -- 10. Realizations, Consequences and Agency -- pt. III. Materials of Justice -- 11. Lives, Freedoms and Capabilities -- 12. Capabilities and Resources -- 13. Happiness, Well-being and Capabilities -- 14. Equality and Liberty -- pt. IV. Public Reasoning and Democracy -- 15. Democracy as Public Reason -- 16. Practice of Democracy -- 17. Human Rights and Global Imperatives -- 18. Justice and the World.
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
978-1846141478
Social contracts Justice Ethics Human rights--Philosophy