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This book investigates contemporary theories of social justice including John Rawls, Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum.
List of contents
Foreword: Liberalism, Politics and Morality
Part I: The Rawlsian Legacy
1. Liberal Justice
2. Ethics and Political Pragmatism
Part II: In the Circle of the Idea of Justice
3. The Idea of Social Justice: From Utopia to Political Practice
4. Rationality and Individual Freedom in the Concepts of John Rawls and Amartya Sen
5. The Idea of Justice and the Problem of Aid: Amartya Sen and Muhammad Yunus
6. The Theory of Social Justice: Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum
7. The Capability Approach
8. Human Dignity, Animal Rights and the Problem of Exclusion in the Philosophy of Martha Nussbaum
Part III: Freedom, Justice and the Liberal State
9. Subjectivity, Freedom and Human Action
10. The Liberal Conception of Man
11. The Limits of Individual Freedom in a Democratic State
12. The Libertarian Theory of the State
13. The Social Contract as the Justification for Policy in the Theory of Public Choice
14. The Axiology of Public Choice
Part IV: Global Justice in a Democratic World
15. Multiculturalism as a Problem of Contemporary Democracy
16. Liberalism and Democracy in the Age of Globalization
17. Cosmopolitanism and Global Justice
18. Whose Justice? Whither Liberalism?
Bibliography
About the author
Justyna Miklaszewska is a Professor of Philosophy and the Head of the Department of the History of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy at Jagiellonian University.
Summary
This book investigates contemporary theories of social justice including John Rawls, Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum.
