PHIL 102 Lecture Notes - Martha Nussbaum, Amartya Sen, Capability Approach
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Rst draft of assignment isn"t being marked, just getting feedback. Natural goods (eg. intelligence, strength, sense of humour, charming) Social goods (liberties, social basis of self-respect, income/wealth) Is a means to an end; we want money only for the things that we can buy. Primary goods are what every person has reason to want: another approach to justice, functionings and capabilities. Is an alternative to rawl"s as well as all other approaches. Rawls: s is just iff its basic social structure complies with p1 & p2 (difference principle) The basic social structure is the distribution of primary goods. Income is a good metric for the ends that are primary goods. Sen thinks that there is more diversity in the primary goods than rawl allows for, and the issue with money as a means to an end. Eg. some people may think that education is a primary good, and this could be quali ed as ,000.
