PHIL 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Glossary Of Riemannian And Metric Geometry, Political Philosophy, Presupposition

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1010
• Professor: Victoria Burke

Document Summary

Only feminist philosopher, who teaches at the university of chicago. Human capabilities and female human beings in her article. Mainly concerned about status of young girls in the developing world. Capabilities is one of the main words of her framework-look at advantage of category of capability of political philosophy that concerns the vulnerable. Young girls in the developing world are vulnerability. When there is little to eat, tradition dictates who gets what to eat; when there is little money, custom dictates who gets taken to the doctor. When women are illiterate, they have little bargaining power to stand up for their own good* This feminist political philosophy presumes that all the goals of feminism have been accomplished in the developed world-ex. That all formal barriers to women have been removed. At the turn of the 21st century, with that at a key presupposition, nussbaum turns her eyes towards the developing world.