the idea of justice

the idea of justice

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Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen
2009 • 801 pages

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This major philosophical work, by one of the world's leading public intellectuals, constructs a new theory of justice, not from abstract ideals or notions of what perfect institutions and rules might be, but from what the results of a system are practically, in the world.

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Incredibly readable and lucid. Wonderful to see how it engages with mainstream ethical philosophy in the US while explaining and contrasting it with his own approach.

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