Choice and Ability to Claim One’s Dignity as Policies of the Individual

Amartya Sen helps the author to understand justice based on assessments of social realizations of what actually happens and not based on a perfect imaginative setting, a veil of ignorance for interests (John Rawls), a social contract or an ideal discourse situation. Justice has to do with capability opportunities and freedom of human life as a whole. The chapter argues that a theory of social choice has to consider as its validity condition the social realization of effective rule of Human Rights law.