We suggest, in this paper, the investigation of Adam Smith and Francis Ysidro Edgeworth's utilitarianism conceptions. Both conceptions were used in order to develop Economics as science. However, they presented the limitations of the economic theory, which boundaries recommended.

Sen has emphasized the importance of subjecting one's choices of actions, objectives, values, and priorities to reasoned scrutiny. But how does one go about doing this? Two matters are foremost in his view: individuals do not do this in isolation and yet a reasoned scrutiny of one's actions,...

Following Amartya Sen's approach, John Davis and Solange Regina Marin look at individual and social reasoning when examining the complex relationship between identity and democracy. They characterize democracy as a process of social or public reasoning that combines the individual reasoning of...