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TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ii INTRODUCTION 1 Part I: The Capability Approach in Perspective 11 Chapter 1 Sen¿s Critique of Utilitarianism 12 1.1 Forms of Utilitarianism 14 a) Hedonism 14 b) Utilitarian Liberalism 17 c) Actual and Rational Preferences 20 1.2 Utilitarianism and Consequentialism 27 a) The Logic of Sacrifice 28 b) Personal Integrity 31 c) Consequentialism versus Deontology 33 1.3 Are Human Beings Rational Fools? 34 a) Commitment and Plurality of Motivations 35 b) Adam Smith, Sen and Beyond Homo Economicus 39 1.4 The Search for Alternative Paradigms 45 Chapter 2 Rethinking Rawlsian Justice 47 2.1 The Core Claims of Rawlsian Justice 50 2.2 Who are the Least Advantaged? 62 a) Sen¿s Critique 62 b) The Dependency Critique 65 c) Rawls¿s Response 69 2.3 Social Contract and Motivations for Social Cooperation 70 a) Nussbaum¿s Critique 71 b) Mutual Advantage or Impartiality? 73 2.4 The Liberal Scepticism of the Good 77 2.5 Similar and Yet So Different 82 Chapter 3 Towards a Capability Theory of Justice 84 3.1 Sen: The Capability Approach Defined 87 a) Entitlements and the Political Economy of Hunger 87 b) Functionings and Capabilities, Achievements and Freedom to Achieve 89 c) Well-being and Agency, Control and Effective Freedom 92 d) Sen and Social Policy 94 3.2 Nussbaum: The Capability Approach Philosophized 98 a) Nussbaum, Aristotle and the Capability approach 98 b) The List of Capabilities 102 3.3 Anderson: The Capability Approach Democratized 108 a) Capabilities and Democratic Equality 108 b) Anderson between Sen and Nussbaum 111 3.4 Objections 114 a) A Distinctive Non-welfarist Approach? 114 b) Functionings or Capabilities? 117 c) A Sufficientarian Approach? 120 3.5 Three Visions, One Theory 122 Part II: Capabilities, Morality and Politics 125 Chapter 4 The Theory of Broad Consequentialism 126 4.1 Rights as Side-constraints 129 4.2 Rights and Capabilities in a Broad Consequentialist Perspective 135 a) Pluralistic Consequentialism 136 b) Rights: Side-constraints or Goals? 139 c) Promoting and Honouring Values 144 4.3 Rights, Consequences and the Market 147 a) The Ethical Limitations of the Market 148 b) The Welfare State, the Minimal State and the Market 153 4.4 The Moral Limits of Consequential Reasoning and Trade Offs 156 4.5 Neither a Prole Nor an Archangel 163 Chapter 5 The Question of Individual Responsibility 165 5.1 Freedom, Opportunities and Responsibility 168 5.2 The Web of Individual and Social Responsibility 177 5.3 Dworkin¿s Account of Responsibility 183 a) Capability Deprivation and Failure to Insure 187 b) Responsibility-test 190 5.4 Social Norms and Policy Imperatives 193 5.5 The Art of Attaining Equilibrium 197 Chapter 6 Aristotle and Nussbaum¿s Hybrid Theory of Capabilities 199 6.1 Aristotle¿s Naturalism Revisited 202 a) The Two Concepts of Nature in Aristotle¿s Ethics and Politics 202 b) Nussbaum¿s Appropriation of Aristotle 207 6.2 Aristotle¿s Conception of Justice 214 a) Justice as Lawfulness 216 b) Criteria for Distributive Justice 220 6.3 Compassion as a Social Emotion 226 a) Nussbaum and Aristotle on Compassion 227 b) Justice versus Compassion 232 6.4 A Public Conception? 235 Chapter 7 Which Freedom? What Sort of Public Reasoning? 237 7.1 Some Unanswered Questions 237 7.2 Capabilities as Positive Freedom 241 a) Authoritarianism or Real Freedom? 243 b) Basic Income and the Capability Approach 246 7.3 Capabilities, Value Construction and Public Reasoning 251 a) The Features of Public Reasoning 253 b) Capabilities as Content of Public Reasoning 257 7.4 Republicanism and the Capability Approach 262 a) The Neo-roman Theory of Freedom 265 b) Freedom as Non-Domination 268 7.5 Conclusion: Beyond Liberal Justice 277 References 279 a) Works by Amartya Sen 279 b) Works by Martha Nussbaum 281 c) Other Works 282
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Distributive justice.
Social justice.
Social choice.
Merit (Ethics).
Resource allocation -- Political aspects.
Sen, Amartya Kumar.
Nussbaum, Martha Craven, 1947-.