Amartya K. Sen: The idea of justice. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2009, 468 pp

Muriel Gilardone

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Abstract: Amartya Sen's readers were expecting the second volume of a series of two devoted to rationality, freedom and justice. Surprisingly The Idea of Justice is not exactly the book announced by Sen (2002); it offers a new perspective of Sen's enterprise. Calling economic orthodoxy into question is not enough; Sen envisages calling philosophical orthodoxy into question too. This review essay will focus on four salient points of the book: the partition of the different approaches of justice in two traditions; the concept of "positional objectivity" to serve impartiality; the will to reconcile reason and sentiments; the capability approach as important but not exclusive.

Keywords: Adam Smith; Amartya Sen; sympathy; capabilities; objectivity; justice; John Rawls; capabilités; objectivité; sympathie (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-10
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Published in Social Choice and Welfare, 2010, pp.709-720. ⟨10.1007/s00355-010-0456-7⟩

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DOI: 10.1007/s00355-010-0456-7

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