TY - BOOK AU - Sen,Amartya TI - The idea of justice SN - 9780674036130 (hardcover : alk. paper) AV - JC578 .S46 2009 U1 - 320.01/1 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press KW - Rawls, John, KW - Justice KW - Social contract KW - Ethics N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Introduction: An approach to justice--The demands of justice--Reason and objectivity--Rawls and beyond--Institutions and persons--Voice and social choice--Impartiality and objectivity--Closed and open impartiality--Forms of reasoning--Position, relevance and illusion--Rationality and other people--Plurality of impartial reasons--Realizations, consequences and agency--The materials of justice--Lives, freedoms and capabilities--Capabilities and resources--Happiness, well-being and capabilities--Equality and liberty--Public reasoning and democracy--Democracy as public reason--The practice of democracy--Human rights and global imperatives--Justice and the world ER -