- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 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
- II. Forms of Reasoning
- 7. Position, Relevance and Illusion
- 8. Rationality and Other People
- 9. Plurality of Impartial Reasons
- 10. Realizations, Consequences and Agency
- III. The Materials of Justice
- 11. Lives, Freedoms and Capabilities
- 12. Capabilities and Resources
- 13. Happiness, Well-being and Capabilities
- 14. Equality and Liberty
- 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
The Idea of Justice
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Publication Date: 05/31/2011
Awards & Accolades
- Amartya Sen Is a 2011 National Humanities Medal Winner
- Amartya Sen Is Winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics
- 2009 North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award
- An Economist Best Book of 2009
- A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2009
- A New Statesman Top Ten Book of the Decade
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