Justice in the Philosophy of Amartya Sen

Laila Hamad Mohammed Alheis ,Amer Shatara

doi:10.7176/ejbm/11-26-15

Abstract

The study aimed at addressing the issue of justice in the Philosophy of Amartya Sen, which specialized in the subject of justice, and was intended to solve several problems faced by man in his daily life. The study dealt with aspects of Amartya Sen's personality, then Amartya Sen's theory of justice, and then what transitional justice is, and the direction and concept of Amartya Sen through his theory of transitional justice. He has developed the capacity approach adopted by the Development Organization and several countries for the development of countries. The study recommended further studies on the theory of Amartya Sen to keep a close eye on its various creations. Keywords: Justice, Philosophy of Amartya Sen, Transitional justice DOI : 10.7176/EJBM/11-26-15 Publication date :September 30th 2019

Highlights

The indian philosopher Amartya Sen emerged as one of the philosophers who had an important view on the concepts of justice and development, distinguished as one of the distinguished contemporary economic thinkers who had outstanding efforts in this regard, and his central question in his theory was about justice, this philosopher laid the foundations of his theory of fairness, which has received the attention of many symbols of contemporary philosophy such as Ricoeur, Sandel and others where they considered the question of the concept of justice is a pivotal question specific to human Being
The researcher showed that this theory is based on the justice of society, far from the so-called institutional justice, he explained that this philosopher belonged to the school of the so-called comparative justice school, as well as the extent to which Amartya Sen is interested in development and human development
The study problem The problem of the study is the lack of clarity and overlapping of terms used by Indian philosopher Amartya Sen, with other terms used by other philosophers, which is often not possible to reach what is meant by those terms, the problem of the study is the lack of specialized studies on the philosophy of Amartya Sen with regard to justice, it is one of the most important economic theories in the modern era, which is an important justification for conducting such a study

Summary

Introduction

The indian philosopher Amartya Sen emerged as one of the philosophers who had an important view on the concepts of justice and development, distinguished as one of the distinguished contemporary economic thinkers who had outstanding efforts in this regard, and his central question in his theory was about justice, this philosopher laid the foundations of his theory of fairness, which has received the attention of many symbols of contemporary philosophy such as Ricoeur, Sandel and others where they considered the question of the concept of justice is a pivotal question specific to human Being. The researcher showed that this theory is based on the justice of society, far from the so-called institutional justice, he explained that this philosopher belonged to the school of the so-called comparative justice school, as well as the extent to which Amartya Sen is interested in development and human development. Through this philosopher reached one of his creations in the so-called theory of (motor development), through which he was awarded a distinguished international prize, the Nobel Prize in Economics, the researcher showed that Amartya Sen concluded that the relationship between Amartya Sen's theory of justice and his relationship to development is an integral relationship, and there are two aspects to the theory: Capacity approach, social choice. The study's problem is to answer the following key question: What is the view of the philosopher Amartya Sen for justice?

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