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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><b><font face="Arial" color="maroon" size="4"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Idea of Justice</span></font></b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Amartya Sen</span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Cambridge</span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, Massachusetts</span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> – 2009</span></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Excerpt PDF [19P.] at: <a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/pdf/SENIDE_excerpt.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://www.hup.harvard.edu/pdf/SENIDE_excerpt.pdf</span></font></a> </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Website: <a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/SENIDE.html?show=reviews" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/SENIDE.html?show=reviews</span></font></a> </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">“….A major critical analysis and synthesis. Sen's inclusive approach transcends the many important scholars and viewpoints that he analyzes. <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">The Idea of Justice</span></i> presents a set of considerations on justice of importance to both the academic community and to the world of policy formation….”<br>
--</span></font><i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Laureate in Economics, Stanford University</span></font></i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">“……justice is not a monolithic ideal but a pluralistic notion with many dimensions. Yet Western philosophers have seen justice largely in singular, utopian terms. Hobbes, Locke and Kant, for example, wove their notions of justice around an imaginary "social contract" between the citizens and the state. A "just society" is produced through perfectly just state institutions and social arrangements and the right behaviour of the citizens. </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sen identifies two serious problems with this "arrangement focussed" approach. First, there is no reasoned agreement on the nature of a "just society". Second, how would we actually recognise a "just society" if we saw one? Without some framework of comparison it is not possible to identify the ideal we need to pursue. </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Furthermore, this approach is of no help in resolving basic issues of injustice. How would you reason, for example, that slavery was an intolerable injustice in a framework that concerned itself with right institutions and right behaviour? How would we ensure that well-established and cheaply producible drugs were available to the poor patients of Aids in developing countries? When faced with stark injustice, the contractual approach turns out to be both redundant and unfeasible. …”<br>
</span></font><i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/book-of-the-week-the-idea-of-justice-by-amartya-sen-1774900.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">The Independent –UK </span></font></a> Book Of The Week: The Idea of Justice, By Amartya Sen - Reviewed by Ziauddin Sardar</span></font></i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Contents</span></font></i></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Introduction An Approach to Justice </span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br>Part i</span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Demands of Justice</span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">1 Reason and Objectivity </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">2 Rawls and Beyond </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">3 Institutions and Persons </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">4 Voice and Social Choice </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">5 Impartiality and Objectivity </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">6 Closed and Open Impartiality </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Part ii</span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Forms of Reasoning</span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">7 Position, Relevance and Illusion </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">8 Rationality and Other People </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">9 Plurality of Impartial Reasons </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">10 Realizations, Consequences and Agency </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Part iii</span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Materials of Justice</span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">11 Lives, Freedoms and Capabilities </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">12 Capabilities and Resources </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">13 Happiness, Well-being and Capabilities </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">14 Equality and Liberty </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Part iv</span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Public Reasoning and Democracy</span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">15 Democracy as Public Reason </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">16 The Practice of Democracy </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">17 Human Rights and Global Imperatives </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">18 Justice and the World </span></font></p></div></div></div>