Synthesized answer
Amartya Sen argues for an approach to justice that focuses on practical decisions and enhancing lives, rather than striving for an ideal state that may be unattainable [1]. He believes that public reason plays a crucial role in identifying ways to make societies less unjust [1]. Sen acknowledges that reasoning about justice does not always lead to universally settled answers, and that there can be valid choices between different, competing reasonable assessments [1].
Sen's theory aims to incorporate these divergent viewpoints rather than trying to eliminate them [1]. He emphasizes the need to avoid parochialism in considering justice in the modern world and to address global injustice [1, 2]. Therefore, instead of a theory of an ideally just state, Sen advocates for a theory that can make judgments about comparative justice, indicating progress towards or away from justice in our current globalized world [2].
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From the book
Title: The idea of justice by Amartya Sen Description: 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…
rn world must avoid parochialism, and further, address questions of global injustice. The breadth of vision, intellectual acuity and striking humanity of one of the world's leading public intellectuals have never been more clearly shown than in this remarkable book. --- Google Books --- Title: The Idea of Justice by Amartya Sen Description: The most important contribution to the subject since John Rawls' A Theory of Justice. Sen argues that what we urgently need in our troubled world is not a theory of an ideally just state, but a theory that can yield judgments as to comparative justice,…