Capabilities and social justice
Subtitle: the political philosophy of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum
By: John M. Alexander.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Ltd.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754661870
Subjects: Sen, Amartya Kumar; Nussbaum, Martha Craven, -- 1947-; Distributive justice; Social justice; Social choice; Merit (Ethics); Resource allocation -- Political aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The capability approach in perspective; title: Sen's critique of utilitarianism; title: Forms of utilitarianism; title: Hedonism; title: Utilitarian liberalism; title: Actual and rational preferences; title: Utilitarianism and consequentialism; title: The logic of sacrifice; title: Personal integrity; title: Consequentialism versus deontology; title: Are human beings rational fools?; title: Commitment and plurality of motivations; title: Adam Smith, Sen and beyond homo economicus; title: The search for alternative paradigms; title: Rethinking Rawlsian justice; title: The core claims of Rawlsian justice; title: Who are the least advantaged?; title: Sen's critique; title: The dependency critique; title: Rawls's response; title: Social contract and motivations for social cooperation; title: Nussbaum's critique; title: Mutual advantage or impartiality?; title: The liberal scepticism of the good; title: Similar and yet so different; title: Towards a capability theory of justice; title: Sen : the capability approach defined; title: Entitlements and the political economy of hunger; title: Functionings and capabilities, achievements and freedom to achieve; title: Well-being and agency, control and effective freedom; title: Sen and social policy; title: Nussbaum : the capability approach philosophized; title: Nussbaum, Aristotle and the capability approach; title: The list of capabilities; title: Anderson : the capability approach democratized; title: Capabilities and democratic equality; title: Anderson between Sen and Nussbaum; title: Objections; title: A distinctive non-welfarist approach?; title: Functionings or capabilities?; title: A sufficientarian approach?; title: Three visions, one theory; title: Capabilities, morality and politics; title: The theory of broad consequentialism; title: Rights as side-constraints; title: Rights and capabilities in a broad consequentialist perspective; title: Pluralistic consequentialism; title: Rights : side-constraints or goals?; title: Promoting and honouring values; title: Rights, consequences and the market; title: The ethical limitations of the market; title: The welfare state, the minimal state and the market; title: The moral limits of consequential reasoning and trade offs; title: Neither a prole nor an archangel; title: The question of individual responsibility; title: Freedom, opportunities and responsibility; title: The web of individual and social responsibility; title: Dworkin's account of responsibility; title: Capability deprivation and failure to insure; title: Responsibility-test; title: Social norms and policy imperatives; title: The art of attaining equilibrium; title: Aristotle and Nussbaums hybrid theory of capabilities; title: Aristotle's naturalism revisited; title: The two concepts of nature in Aristotle's ethics and politics; title: Nussbaum's appropriation of Aristotle; title: Aristotle's conception of justice; title: Justice as lawfulness; title: Criteria for distributive justice; title: Compassion as a social emotion; title: Nussbaum and Aristotle on compassion; title: Justice versus compassion; title: A public conception?; title: Which freedom? what sort of public reasoning?; title: Some unanswered questions; title: Capabilities as positive freedom; title: Authoritarianism or real freedom?; title: Basic income and the capability approach; title: Capabilities, value construction, and public reasoning; title: The features of public reasoning; title: Capabilities as content of public reasoning; title: Republicanism and the capability approach; title: The neo-Roman theory of freedom; title: Freedom as non-domination; title: Conclusion: Beyond liberal justice.