The Idea of Justice

Speaker: Professor Amartya Sen
Chair: Professor Lord Stern
This event was recorded on 27 July 2009 in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Amartya Sen explores the ways in which, and the degree to which, justice is a matter of reason, and of different kinds of reason. This event marks the launch of Professor Sen's new book The Idea of Justice. Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor at Harvard and an honorary fellow of LSE. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge 1998-2004. His books include Development as Freedom (OUP), The Argumentative Indian (Allen Lane/Penguin) and Identity and Violence (Allen Lane/Penguin), and have been translated into more than thirty languages.

[@manishdas274]

Greatest man in the world. World famous personality. Greatest regard to him.........

[@ahmkausher6700]

It’s a great opportunity to hear him though much late. I live in the same part of Dhaka City where he was born and my son was a student of the same school where this great man studied in his childhood. We do feel proud of this great man that he was our neighbour. We wish his good health and a long life.

[@pradipkrdas4263]

Sen sir, We are proud of you.

[@sherlockcipher6690]

So who would choose (and under what circumstances) a. Alice who can actually play the flute well b. Bob who has nothing else and the flute would be his only thing c. Carla who actually made the flute

[@manishdas274]

Greatest man in the world.

[@sanghapal25]

Looking for public lecture at 6.30pm on 26 jan 2006, Economics as a Discipline at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). If any knows about this video , please post.

360p only? C'mon LSE.

[@shadoesoul]

7:24

[@siddharthghatvisave]

very informative video

[@Mar10eleven]

What are these niti and Nayar concepts he refers to? I am afraid I have not heard of them before and do not follow.

[@MsSixtine16]

These are two different Sanskrit words (there are 25) for justice. Niti is the description of ideal behaviour rules and of ideal institutions. Nayar means the realisation of justice (what kind of opportunities people have for example). Sen is concerned with Nayar in his Idea of Justice, rather than the justice closer to Niti advanced by Rawls. I got this off of one of his interviews, I recommend watching them :)

[@srikrishnabhat6793]

@@MsSixtine16 One correction, it says Nyaya not Nayar

[@bielvaladarescavaldavez8355]

português

[@langengro]

6:09