The Idea of Justice

Amartya Sen

    • Preface
    • Acknowledgements
    • 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

      7. 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

      11. 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

      15. 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
  • Cover: The Idea of Justice
  • A photo of the author

University of Glasgow

Amartya Sen, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics, is Lamont University Professor, Harvard University.