WWS 370 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Capability Approach, John Rawls, Social Democracy
29 Nov 2018
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Emerged in the 1990s to improve living conditions for all. Process of widening people"s choices and the level of their achieved well-being. Purpose: to secure the freedom, well-being, and dignity of all. Policies do not allow people to pursue their own conceptions of good . Policies usually always consider good to be: Policies usually always consider bad to be: Implementing sen"s interpretation and capability approach in terms of human development policies parenalist and perfectionism. Nussbaum"s understanding of the capability approach in the context of an aristotelian social democracy is more sincere than sen"s because it offers a perfectionist theory of the good. Putting the capability approach in rawlsian political liberalism is inconsistent with the objective of human development (giving adequate opportunities and incentives for everyone to live a full life) Policies based on the capability approach entail paternalism. Domain of justice can"t be held for political purposes only, in the rawlsian sense of the term.
