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Capabilities and Social Justice: The Political Philosophy of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum

Capabilities and Social Justice: The Political Philosophy of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum

Alexander, John M.

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Philosophy

ISBN10: 1138257303
ISBN13: 9781138257306
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 28 2016
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The capability approach to social justice construes a person's well-being in terms of the substantive freedoms people value. John Alexander engages with the rapidly growing body of literature on the capability approach in economics, inequality, poverty measurement and development studies. Critically assessing Sen and Nussbaum's work in normative economics, social ethics and political philosophy, Alexander develops a unified vision of the capability approach embodying the ideal of creating the greatest possible condition for the realization of basic capabilities for all. He then assesses this vision as a political theory arguing that capabilities are necessary but not sufficient for overcoming conditions of domination. The book calls for a more intimate relationship between individual liberty and the freedom of the political community as a whole.

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