Synopsis
Is justice an ideal, forever beyond our grasp, or something that may actually
guide our practical decisions and enhance our lives? In this wide-ranging book,
Amartya Sen presents an alternative approach to mainstream theories of justice
which, despite their many specific achievements have taken us, he argues, in the
wrong direction in general.
At the heart of Sen's argument is his insistence on the role of public reason in
establishing what can make societies less unjust. But it is in the nature of
reasoning about justice, argues Sen, that it does not allow all questions to be
settled even in theory; there are choices to be faced