PHIL 2280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Practical Reason, Gary Becker, Capability Approach
18 Dec 2017
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Contemporary america philosopher from the university of chicago. They developed this new approach to measuring development in human societies to replace what was the measure up to that point. The reading tries to strike a balance between traditional philosophy and give a critique of traditional society. The work is full of evidence from experimental research. She begins her text of a story of a woman it a low cast in india who after the death of her husband is near starvation. Human development report: in no country are women equal they are discriminated against everywhere. She backs up her argument with the support found in human development report that find in no country in the world are women equal to men and that everywhere women are discriminated against. She finds that customs and political arrangements are important causes of women"s misery and death.
