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Robert Nozick(1938 –2002): One the most famous Libertarian thinker; he presented a
Libertarian account of justice in his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia( 1974)
JS Mill (1806 –1873): Prominent liberal thinker of 19th Century; champion of liberty, wrote
Ón Liberty(1859); raised issue of women’s rights in his essay ‘The Subjection of
Women(1869); also worked for rights of minorities, labour cooperatives.
Prominent Thinkers who gave Nyaya focussed Theory of Justice
Marry Wollstonecraft(1759-1797): Radical Liberal feminist who raised women’s
and common man’s issue against the aristocratic conservative social order of 18th
century Europe.
Prof Amartya Sen( 1933): Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University; Nobel Prize winner
in Economics in 1998; gave the capability approach and concept of Development as Freedom ; his Ídea of
Justice( 2009) questins practical utility of Rawls theory of Justice, which to him, is Niti focussed; instead he
advocated realization focussed Justice, denoted by Sanskrit word ‘Nyaya’.
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