Vishamta : Ek Punarvivechan

Nobel Prize-winning economist Professor Amartya Sen has a philosophical work, Inequality. Among his many world-renowned books, this work is considered a key to his thinking. It is undoubtedly one of Professor Sens most difficult books. Difficult not in the sense of its lengthy and complex rhetoric, but in the sense that concepts like freedom, equality, and diversity are used in such a wide range of contexts that it requires considerable effort to become accustomed to them. The debate between equality and freedom has been a significant philosophical debate of this century. The four decades of the Cold War transformed it into a central controversy in world politics. In this book, Professor Sen delves into this debate. Analyzing the views of egalitarians and libertarians, Professor Sen proves that the dispute between these two is not actually about whether there should be equality between humans or not, but about what equality between humans should consist of. In his quest to answer the central question, Equality of what?, Professor Sen focuses on the immense diversity among human beings. Disabled individuals, pregnant women, tribal people living in Kala-azar-affected areas, or social workers voluntarily sacrificing all comforts to serve the publicall are within his sights, and he sees no significant benefit to concrete human beings through any fabricated definition of humanity. His focus is generally on the human freedom to strive for different goals and, in particular, on the ability of different individuals to achieve diverse values. Whatever your views on freedom and equality may be, and whether or not they align with Professor Sens, theres no doubt that after going through this analysis, your perspective will have expanded.