Global Justice in a Democratic World - Contemporary Liberal Theories

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. Multiculturali

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.

Product details

• Authors: Justyna Miklaszewska
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781538150979
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-5097-9
• No. of pages: 276
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, Political structures: democracy, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Political structures / systems: democracy, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies and movements, Centrist democratic ideologies and movements