Capabilities and Social Justice: The Political Philosophy of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum
Autor John M. Alexanderen Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 noi 2016
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781138257306
ISBN-10: 1138257303
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1138257303
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Cuprins
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.
Notă biografică
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.
Recenzii
'This is probably the best introduction to the capability approach in social sciences ever written. Emphasis is laid on the philosophical background of the capability approach. The author compares the theories of Sen and Nussbaum to welfarism, Rawlsian and rights-based approaches. The merits and weaknesses of consequentialist and deontological versions are clearly explained. Capability theorists will be particularly interested in John Alexander's argument that the capability approach is closer to republicanism than to mainstream liberalism. Throughout the text, the practical relevance of philosophical debates for development issues is made clear. Arguments are carefully devised in a highly readable text.' Antoon Vandevelde, University of Leuven, Belgium and editor of Gifts and Interests, Peeters, 2000. 'John Alexander's work is a very good study of one of the leading approaches to social justice in contemporary political theory. It shows a very strong grasp of the authors discussed and is completely up-to-date on the relevant literature. It is very well written - very clear throughout, well-structured, and easy to follow. The lines of argument in the work are always on the mark and are challenging and original. As a whole, the book makes an important contribution to the literature on social justice and is particularly strong on bringing together traditions that are often seen as rivals.' John Baker, University College Dublin, Ireland and author of Arguing for Equality, Verso, 1987 and co-author of Equality: From Theory to Action, Palgrave, 2004. 'This is a very helpful discussion of the main issues connected with the capability approach to social justice associated with Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum. John Alexander is very well versed in recent discussions of social justice and in addition to giving a lucid account of the capability approach brings it into fruitful dialogue with the main strands of that recent discussion. He writes with intelligence and luc
Descriere
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.