Synthesized answer
The passages suggest that the practical implications of justice involve guiding decisions and enhancing lives [1]. A theory of justice should yield judgments about comparative justice, indicating when and why societies are moving closer to or farther away from realizing justice [2].
The passages emphasize the need for a theory of justice that can address questions of global injustice and avoid parochialism [1, 2]. They also highlight that reasoning about justice does not settle all questions, and that choices must be made between alternative assessments of what is reasonable [1]. The practical implications, therefore, involve navigating these divergent viewpoints and making choices based on public reason to make societies less unjust [1]. The passages do not elaborate on specific examples of these practical implications.
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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,…