If the first inadequate theory of justice was too simplistic, this second one was downright dangerous. This week, in moving to block what was thought to be the final merger among the oldline carriers, between american and us airways, the justice department argued that the era of ruinous airline. The idea of justice by nobel laureate, amartya sen is a path breaking work on the concept of justice. Justice, western theories of internet encyclopedia of philosophy. The notion of justice is also essential in that of the just state, a central concept in.
The concept of justice merely informs us what justice is about, it delimits. The idea of justice is necessarily multifaceted, not smoothcut. His book is not only an extension but also a critique of john rawls work theory of justice. The department of justice may have screwed us all by. Turner unveiled it as a priority upon being nominated to be head the justice departments antitrust division in 1965. Justice is one of the most important moral and political concepts. Imagine three children quarrelling over a musical instrument, lets say a flute. He talks about niti and nyaya, former relates to just rules, whereas, the latter refers to realisation. Why the justice department blocked the americanus airways. Horizontal merger guidelines federal trade commission. First, a theory of justice that can serve as the basis of practical reasoning.
The reasoning leading to the two principles of justice. Distributive justice stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. Justice is rendering to every one equally, whether citizen or alien that which is his due. Smiths classic book, the theory of moral sentiments, was published exactly 250 years ago in. In addressing the idea of justice, sen not only criticizes john rawlss theory of justice but also extends his thesis by a new approach towards capability. Just acquisition, especially by working on unowned things. The concept of justice is based on numerous fields, and many differing. The capability approach developed by martha nussbaum and amartya. First, we are unlikely ever to agree on what is a just society. First, a theory of justice that can serve as the basis of practical reasoningmustincludewaysofjudginghowtoreduceinjusticeand advance justice, rather than aiming only at the characterization of perfectlyjustsocietiesanexercisethatissuchadominantfeatureof manytheoriesofjusticeinpoliticalphilosophytoday. Pdf this book presents a challenge to traditional western justice theory.
At the end i argue that justice as fairness, better than every other conception of justice, provides answers to mans quest for a global social order. Once upon a time, hindus and sikhs along with muslims were settled in large numbers in the canal colonies from all over the undivided punjab. In this book amartya sen diverges from the dominant theories of justice associated with enlightenment thinkers such as locke, rousseau and kant, whom he describes as transcendental institutionalists in search of perfectly just institutions. Justice has, over the past two years, emphasized that the departments. The idea of justice, amartya sen cambridge, mass belknap pressharvard university press, 2009, 496 pp. Sen has received substantial attention in recent years, in philosophical exchanges as well. For an official signed copy, please contact the antitrust documents group. The idea of agencyissued guidelines as an effective enforcement tool was novel indeed when professor donald f. To illustrate the pervasive plurality of the idea of justice, sen gives us an example.
When some customers express concerns about the competitive effects of a merger while others view the merger as beneficial or neutral, the agencies take account of this divergence in using the information provided by customers and consider the likely reasons for such divergence of views. These three principles of just holdingsthe principle of acquisition of. The idea of justice occupies centre stage both in ethics, and in legal and. The indian nobel laureate amartya sen, born in 1933, is one of the most important public intellectuals of our age, an original thinker whose work transcends the standard disciplinary boundaries. To view the pdf you will need acrobat reader, which may be downloaded from the adobe site. It has been distinguished from equity in this respect, that justice means while. Merger analysis, industrial organization theory, and merger. The quest for justice political, social, economic has fired political imaginations ever since the.
Pdf the 1982 department of justice merger guidelines. The practical contribution of distributive justice theory is to provide. Thinkers from plato and aristotle through to kant, hegel, marx and. Justice, in its broadest context, includes both the attainment of that which is just and the philosophical discussion of that which is just. Justice, in philosophy, the concept of a proper proportion between a persons.
The concept of justice what is the use of defining justice. The statement of the entitlement theory includes reference to the principles of justice in acquisition. Some have thought that neither strict equality nor rawls difference. Merger analysis, industrial organization theory, and. Just transfer, that is free gift, sale or other agreement. John rawlss a theory of justice, published in 1971, has cast a long shadow over modern political philosophy. We now have to combine the just savings principle with the two princi. The justice department and some other antitrust experts say government. Justice is a moral concept with no agreed definition, denoting the general. Willig department of justice merger analysis, industrial organization theory, and merger guidelines the leadership of the antitrust.
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