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IDEA OF JUSTICE
by SEN, AMARTYA
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Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2009. HARDCOVER. Hardcover. 9.5 X 6.4 X 1.7 inches. VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(S29.95) DUST JACKET, clean, solid, bright; gold spine title on dark blue spine strip...purple hard covers..,similar prple endpapers..white titles on blue dj with lady justice drawing on tan paper .. notes, and name and subject indexes ; 496 pages; Social justice: an ideal, forever beyond our grasp; or one of many practical possibilities? More than a matter of intellectual discourse, the idea of justice plays a real role in how and how well people live. And in this book the distinguished scholar Amartya Sen offers a powerful critique of the theory of social justice that, in its grip on social and political thinking, has long left practical realities far behind. .
Synopsis
Is justice an ideal, forever beyond our grasp, or something that may actually guide our practical decisions and enhance our lives?In this wide-ranging book, Amartya Sen presents an alternative approach to mainstream theories of justice which, despite their many specific achievements have taken us, he argues, in the wrong direction in general.At the heart of Sen's argument is his insistence on the role of public reason in establishing what can make societies less unjust. But it is in the nature of reasoning about justice, argues Sen, that it does not allow all questions to be settled even in theory; there are choices to be faced between alternative assessments of what is reasonable; several different and competing positions can each be well-defended.Far from rejecting such pluralities or trying to reduce them beyond the limits of reasoning, we should make use of them to construct a theory of justice that can absorb divergent points of view. Sen also shows how concern about the principles of justice in the modern world must avoid parochialism, and further, address questions of global injustice. The breadth of vision, intellectual acuity and striking humanity of one of the world's leading public intellectuals have never been more clearly shown than in this remarkable book.
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- Title
- IDEA OF JUSTICE
- Author
- SEN, AMARTYA
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- FRA ANGELICO dj cover ART JUSTICE
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
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- Edition
- HARDCOVER
- ISBN 10
- 0674036131
- ISBN 13
- 9780674036130
- Publisher
- Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, MA
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- Sociology, Povery poor people, Health, HUMAN Rights, War On Poverty, Legal Justice, Equality liberty, Social Justice, Society Culture philosophy
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