Paper's abstract

Virgil Cristian Lenoir, Justice and the beam of plurality
The shift in paradigm for political justice suggested by Amartya Sen is open to two different readings. If a pragmatic interpretation rightly validates the importance for justice of a public and informed scrutiny, I try here to show the viability of a speculative interpretation whose interest would consist in, along with legitimating the first, precising the obstacles that meets the determination of an “objective” list of capabilities. Taking seriously the senian injunction to broaden our perspective to other cultures and civilizations will allow me, in the light of this second reading, to examine the conditions of a determinate statement of universal requirements that will take the shape of “rights”, framing an infinite deliberation on “capacities”.

Key Words : justice, ahimsa, objectivity, position, rights
tome 55, 2012 : p. 345-368

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