Dynamism of Theories of Justice: Decoding John Rawls & Amartya Sen’s Theories

Abstract

The concept of justice is somewhat complex and there are different facets that has been unraveled by different philosophers, scholars and other academicians. The aspect of social justice is always celebrated in the jurisprudential aspect as it is one of the core aspects that has a strong nexus with the legal facets particularly amongst other forms of justice. The philosophy of political, justice and social sciences is the core domain that is impliedly discussed by various academicians and scholars with respect to a just and fair society. In this paper, researcher critically evaluates the theory of justice by taking into account the two most famous theories proposed by two eminent personnel of their time. First one is of John Rawls in 1971 in which he beautifully enshrined the aspect of positive discrimination and distributive justice under the umbrella of social justice and second one is the work of Noble laureate, Amartya Sen. He provides a new notion on the idea of justice through his pathbreaking work on concept of justice which is also a critique of John Rawl’s Work-Theory of Justice.

In the present work, researcher has dealt the concept of justice in the light of proposed work on same by the highlighted personnel in different phase. This paper provides a critical analysis coupled with the litmus understanding of the substance of Rawl’s and Sen’s notion of justice with the conceptual, practical as well as analytical perspective of the concept of justice by examining the theories as per their evolution and relevance in the instant time.  The paper in toto presents the main concepts, appraisal, dominant criticisms and the current approach of researcher for understanding with a view to further decode that Sen’s contribution is a global framework for the discourse of social justice.