Amartya Sen pictured prior to his lecture 'The Idea of Justice ' at The London Literature Festival, The Southbank Centre. AS is one of the worlds leading public intellectuals . In the lecture he argues for a new theory of justice requiring the agreement not just of community making laws , but of outsiders who might be affected. By moving away from an abstract ideal of the perfect society , Sen argues that our sense of justice can be rooted in the world we live in . The lecture based on new book out next week 'The Idea of Justice ' [Penguin]

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