The Idea of Justice
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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.
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PUBLISHED
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: xxviii, 467 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780674036130
0674036131
SUBJECTS
Rawls, John, -- 1921-2002.
Justice.
Social contract.
Ethics.