TITLE:
IDEAS OF JUSTICE: Relevance of Weber’s Approach
AUTHORS:
Jan-Erik Lane
KEYWORDS:
Sen, Barry, Rawls, Dworkin, Weber, Ethics—Meta-Ethics
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Philosophy,
Vol.7 No.3,
July
10,
2017
ABSTRACT: A book so overall critical as The Idea of Justice by A. Sen requires a Popper inspired examination. The results are that his rejection of Rawls is flawed and that he entirely lacks meta-ethics. The continental Weberian approach to normative enquiry has been severely neglected by many scholars in the Anglo-Saxon tradition, trying in vain to identify the true nature of justice. Instead of searching for a Platonic idea of justice, one should examine today’s conflicts over justice looking to the ultimate values of people.