An edition of Capabilities and social justice
(2007)
Capabilities and social justice
the political philosophy of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum
by John M. Alexander
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Table of Contents
The capability approach in perspective
Sen's critique of utilitarianism
Forms of utilitarianism
Hedonism
Utilitarian liberalism
Actual and rational preferences
Utilitarianism and consequentialism
The logic of sacrifice
Personal integrity
Consequentialism versus deontology
Are human beings rational fools?
Commitment and plurality of motivations
Adam Smith, Sen and beyond homo economicus
The search for alternative paradigms
Rethinking Rawlsian justice
The core claims of Rawlsian justice
Who are the least advantaged?
Sen's critique
The dependency critique
Rawls's response
Social contract and motivations for social cooperation
Nussbaum's critique
Mutual advantage or impartiality?
The liberal scepticism of the good
Similar and yet so different
Towards a capability theory of justice
Sen : the capability approach defined
Entitlements and the political economy of hunger
Functionings and capabilities, achievements and freedom to achieve
Well-being and agency, control and effective freedom
Sen and social policy
Nussbaum : the capability approach philosophized
Nussbaum, Aristotle and the capability approach
The list of capabilities
Anderson : the capability approach democratized
Capabilities and democratic equality
Anderson between Sen and Nussbaum
Objections
A distinctive non-welfarist approach?
Functionings or capabilities?
A sufficientarian approach?
Three visions, one theory
Capabilities, morality and politics
The theory of broad consequentialism
Rights as side-constraints
Rights and capabilities in a broad consequentialist perspective
Pluralistic consequentialism
Rights : side-constraints or goals?
Promoting and honouring values
Rights, consequences and the market
The ethical limitations of the market
The welfare state, the minimal state and the market
The moral limits of consequential reasoning and trade offs
Neither a prole nor an archangel
The question of individual responsibility
Freedom, opportunities and responsibility
The web of individual and social responsibility
Dworkin's account of responsibility
Capability deprivation and failure to insure
Responsibility-test
Social norms and policy imperatives
The art of attaining equilibrium
Aristotle and Nussbaums hybrid theory of capabilities
Aristotle's naturalism revisited
The two concepts of nature in Aristotle's ethics and politics
Nussbaum's appropriation of Aristotle
Aristotle's conception of justice
Justice as lawfulness
Criteria for distributive justice
Compassion as a social emotion
Nussbaum and Aristotle on compassion
Justice versus compassion
A public conception?
Which freedom? what sort of public reasoning?
Some unanswered questions
Capabilities as positive freedom
Authoritarianism or real freedom?
Basic income and the capability approach
Capabilities, value construction, and public reasoning
The features of public reasoning
Capabilities as content of public reasoning
Republicanism and the capability approach
The neo-Roman theory of freedom
Freedom as non-domination
Conclusion: Beyond liberal justice.
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