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Compassion as the Basis of Justice in the Amartya Sen’s Theory
The article is devoted to the analysis of the theory of justice by A. Sen, who makes an attempt to overcome the limitation of Rawls' approach, substantiating the priority of the implementation of private justice.
The purpose of the study is to clarify the theoretical basis of A. Sen's idea of justice. Research objectives: 1) to analyze the works of A. Sen, as well as the philosophers who influenced the formation of his views; 2) determine how Sen's theory overcomes
the limitations of the tradition of reasoning about justice; 3) to establish the correlation of Sen's concept with the philosophical teachings that put forward the demand for the universality of justice.
Methods. We apply the methods of comparative and hermeneutic analysis for theories study and interpretations. The conclusions establish the similarity of Sen's idea with the interpretations of justice by Rorty, Hoffe, and confirm the commonality of the principles of Sen's theory of justice with the Buddhist concept of compassion.
Results. The study of A. Sen's theory showed that: 1) there is a tendency to interpret justice through the prism of personal (as opposed to institutional) relations (concepts of Heffe, Rorty and Sen); 2) as an alternative to transcendental institutional justice,
Sen proposes the idea of a plurality of reasonable grounds; 3) the development of moral behavior becomes a condition for the formation of institutional justice. 4) analysis of the idea of "transpositional understanding" revealed its similarity with the Buddhist concept of "karuna", which confirms the transcultural nature of Sen's theory.
The purpose of the study is to clarify the theoretical basis of A. Sen's idea of justice. Research objectives: 1) to analyze the works of A. Sen, as well as the philosophers who influenced the formation of his views; 2) determine how Sen's theory overcomes
the limitations of the tradition of reasoning about justice; 3) to establish the correlation of Sen's concept with the philosophical teachings that put forward the demand for the universality of justice.
Methods. We apply the methods of comparative and hermeneutic analysis for theories study and interpretations. The conclusions establish the similarity of Sen's idea with the interpretations of justice by Rorty, Hoffe, and confirm the commonality of the principles of Sen's theory of justice with the Buddhist concept of compassion.
Results. The study of A. Sen's theory showed that: 1) there is a tendency to interpret justice through the prism of personal (as opposed to institutional) relations (concepts of Heffe, Rorty and Sen); 2) as an alternative to transcendental institutional justice,
Sen proposes the idea of a plurality of reasonable grounds; 3) the development of moral behavior becomes a condition for the formation of institutional justice. 4) analysis of the idea of "transpositional understanding" revealed its similarity with the Buddhist concept of "karuna", which confirms the transcultural nature of Sen's theory.
justice, impartiality, John Rawls, Amartya Sen, comparative approach, rational reasoning, compassion, Buddhism