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This Book Brings Together A Team Of Leading Theorists To Address The Question 'what Is The Right Measure Of Justice?' Some Contributors, Following Amartya Sen And Martha Nussbaum, Argue That We Should Focus On Capabilities, Or What People Are Able To Do And To Be. Others, Following John Rawls, Argue For Focussing On Social Primary Goods, The Goods Which Society Produces And Which People Can Use. Still Others See Both Views As Incomplete And Complementary To One Another. Their Essays Evaluate The Two Approaches In The Light Of Particular Issues Of Social Justice - Education, Health Policy, Disability, Children, Gender Justice - And The Volume Concludes With An Essay By Amartya Sen, Who Originated The Capabilities Approach--provided By Publisher. Introduction: Social Primary Goods And Capabilities As Metrics Of Justice / Ingrid Robeyns And Harry Brighouse -- Pt. 1. Theory. A Critique On The Capability Approach / Thomas Pogge -- Equal Opportunity, Unequal Capability / Erin Kelly -- Justifying The Capabilities Approach To Justice / Elizabeth Anderson -- Two Cheers For Capabilities / Richard J. Arneson -- Pt. 2. Applications. Capabilities, Opportunity, And Health / Norman Daniel -- What

Author

Harry Brighouse and Ingrid Robeyns

Publisher

Cambridge [England] ; New York: Cambridge University Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780511678905

Subjects

Sociology, Social_sciences