PHIL 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Bodily Integrity, Capability Approach
22 Dec 2016
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Phil 121 lecture 20 persons with a dignity that deserves respect from laws and institutions. Institutions that systematically permit this sort of exploitation are bad institutions. Nussbaum: (cid:498)all too often, women are not treated as ends in their own right, Instead, they are treated as mere instruments of the ends of others(cid:499) Life: being able to life of a normal length. Bodily health: access to nutrition, shelter and care. Bodily integrity: being secure against violence in private and public places. Affiliation: being able to form a variety of social relations, according to one"s. Control over environment: being able to hold private property and to choice participate effectively in political process that affect one. Senses, imagination, and thought: being able to engage in distinctively human mental activities, informed by an adequate education. Emotions: being able to cultivate attachments to things and people, including loving and caring relationships. The capabilities approach is unflinchingly universalist about what makes a.
