
Episode 16: Amartya Sen discusses justice
Elucidations
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The Importance of Justice
We could agree that these are unjust without having to agree the exact balance of reasoning about inequality versus liberty and so on. That doesn't mean in the future agreement may not extend beyond it when people fought for slavery, abolishing,. they thought that was a very important step. They were not saying whether the right to a unionized labor is a major right - that will be another day's battle. So I think the engagement of justice proceeds in terms of how much agreement on the basis of reasoning you could get as to what is the reason of a resolution today. And a theory of justice has to be a theory of that and that's really what I'm trying to argue for. But that
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