PHILO-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Capability Approach, Martha Nussbaum, Logical Form
1 Sep 2020
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Stage three: multiculturalism as a response to nation-building. Benign neglect": culture is something you are free to pursue on your own time in your private life. In the same way that the state cannot endorse a preferred religion for any reason we shouldn"t promote one culture: the state cannot prefer one group of people over another. In privileging the majority we exclude certain groups. The idea that there is a foundation in nature for the confinement of women to the family, and for restricting their legal and political rights. 5 stages of ethic development ordered them in a hierarchy (5 = the best way to reason: studied individuals and concluded that at stage 3 = individuals reason based on context. Someone stole a loaf of bread; people begin to ask questions why did he steal it etc. Mostly women reasoned based on context: at stage 5 = people reason based on universal moral principles.
