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the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute
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The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant 'identity' ('this is your duty as an American', 'you must commit these acts as a Muslim', or 'as a Chinese you should give priority to this national engagement') is not only an imposition of an external and arbitrary priority, but also the denial of an important liberty of a person who can decide on their respective loyalties to different groups (to all of which he or sh..
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While we cannot live without history, we need not live within it either.
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identity
religion
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The notion of human right builds on our shared humanity. These rights are not derived from the citizenship of any country, or the membership of any nation, but are presumed to be claims or entitlements of every human being. They differ, therefore, from constitutionally created rights guaranteed for specific people.
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Amartya Sen |
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Nor let us be resentful when others differ from us. For all men have hearts, and each heart has its own leanings. Their right is our wrong, and our right is their wrong.
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life
philosophy
judgement
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If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither necessary nor sufficient.
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politics
practical
law
justice
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The World Bank has not invariably been my favorite organization. The power to do good goes almost always with the possibility to do the opposite, and as a professional economist, I have had occasions in the past to wonder whther the Bank could not have done very much better.
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Amartya Sen |
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It is hard to understand how a compassionate world order can include so many people afflicted by acute misery, persistent hunger and deprived and desperate lives, and why millions of innocent children have to die each year from lack of food or medical attention or social care. This issue, of course, is not new, and it has been a subject of some discussion among theologians. The argument that God has reasons to want us to deal with these ma..
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responsibility
freedom
social-commitment
development
economics
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Amartya Sen |
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ltfkyr mhm jdan lfhm l`dl@ Ht~ fy `lm fyh kthyr mn ljnwn.
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Amartya Sen |
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Development consists of the removal of various types of unfreedoms that leave people with little choice and little opportunity of exercising their reasoned agency. The removal of substantial unfreedoms, it is argued here, is constitutive of development.
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Amartya Sen |
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nW ld` b'n lns sywfqwn `l~ TrH m`yn n kn lhm 'n yfkrw bHry@in wHyd@ l yftrD 'n lns kdhlk f`lan
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Amartya Sen |
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l`dl@ mrtbT@ fy lnhy@ bTryq@ Hy@ lns, l bTby`@ lmw'sst lmHyT@ bhm fHsb.
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Amartya Sen |
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A good statement of an inherently imprecise concern - and most important concerns in the world are imprecise - must capture that imprecision, and not replace it by a precise statement about something else. You should learn to speak in an articulate way about ideas that are inescapably imprecise (as a man called Aristotle explained more than two millennia ago). And that is one of the reasons why the humanities are important. A novel can poin..
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Amartya Sen |
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ymkn 'n tnbthq mn lns mtnw`y ltjrb wlmshrb nqsht `qlny@ mtDd@, lkn hdhh t'ty kdhlk mn mjtm` b`ynh , 'w mn wjh@ lnZr hdhh mn lshkhS nfsh .
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Amartya Sen |
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To conclude this discussion, assessment of justice demands engagement with the 'eyes of mankind', first, because we may variously identify with the others elsewhere and not just with our local community; second, because our choices and actions may affect the lives of others far as well as near; and third,because what they see from their respective perspective of history and geography may help us to overcome our own parochialism.
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Amartya Sen |
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'n ykwn lmr 'dhk~ qd ys`dh dhlk `l~ fhm lys fqT mSlHth lshkhSy@, bl kyf ymkn 'n tt'thr Hywt lakhryn t'thran shdydan b'f`lh.
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Amartya Sen |
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b817425
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Prolixity is not alien to us in India. We are able to talk at some length.
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Amartya Sen |
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ymkn 'n tnbthq mn lns mtnw`y ltjrb wlmshrb nthsht `qlny@ mtDd@, lkn hdhh t'ty kdhlk mn mjtm` b`ynh , 'w mn wjh@ lnZr hdhh mn lshkhS nfsh .
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Amartya Sen |
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lt`Sb tjh m`tqdt wdynt lakhryn l ys`d `l~ twlyd lthq@ fy smH@ m`tqd wdyn lmr nfsh.
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فكرة-العدالة
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l'shkhS l`qy'dywn jdan ymylwn l~ 'nw` m`yn@ mn ltfkyr, qd tkwn fj@ jdan, d`man l`qy'dhm.
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Amartya Sen |
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n 'sbb ltTrf lyst dyny@ bl sysy@.
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سياسة
دين
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there are two principal approaches to secularism, focusing respectively on (1) neutrality between different religions, and (2) prohibition of religious associations in state activities.
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Amartya Sen |
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The Vedas may be full of hymns and religious invocations, but they also tell stories, speculate about the world and - true to the argumentative propensity already in view - ask difficult questions. A basic doubt concerns the very creation of the world: did someone make it, was it a spontaneous emergence, and is there a God who knows what really happened? As is discussed in Essay 1, the Rigveda goes on to express radical doubts on these issu..
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Amartya Sen |
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Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; ... Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; ... Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.53
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Amartya Sen |
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He wrote extensively on how schools should be made more attractive to boys and girls and thus more productive. His own co-educational school at Santiniketan had many progressive features. The emphasis here was on self-motivation rather than on discipline, and on fostering intellectual curiosity rather than competitive excellence.
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Amartya Sen |
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Just consider how terrible the day of your death will be. Others will go on speaking, and you will not be able to argue back.
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Amartya Sen |
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So the much criticized food subsidy and employment guarantee for the poor and the unemployed cost about 1.14 per cent of GDP, whereas the cost of subsidizing electricity, fuel and fertilizers for the relatively better off is minimally 2.63 per cent, more than twice what is allocated to feed the poor and provide employment to the unemployed.
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Amartya Sen |
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What has been called 'the financial bleeding of Bengal' began very soon after Plassey. (pg. 164)
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