John M. Alexander

Capabilities and Social Justice (eBook, ePUB)

The Political Philosophy of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The capability approach to social justice construes a person's well-being in terms of the substantive freedoms people value beyond mere utility or access to resources. In this book, John Alexander engages with the rapidly growing body of literature on the capability approach in economics, inequality and poverty measurement, and development studies, paying particular attention to Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum's collaborative work on the capability approach in normative economics, social ethics and political philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351953474
• Artikelnr.: 49335818

Autorenporträt

Dr John M. Alexander is Research Fellow at the Centre for Economics and Ethics at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Leuven, Belgium. He also teaches Philosophy and Business Ethics at Loyola Institute of Business Administration, Loyola College (University of Madras), Chennai, India.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Part I The Capability Approach in Perspective: Sen's critique of utilitarianism
Rethinking Rawlsian justice
Towards a capability theory of justice. Part II Capabilities, Morality and Politics: The theory of broad consequentialism
The question of individual responsibility
Aristotle and Nussbaum's hybrid theory of capabilities
Which freedom? What sort of public reasoning?
Bibliography
Index.