Reasoning About Well-Being: Nussbaum’s Methods of Justifying the Capabilities.

Jaggar, Alison. Reasoning About Well-Being: Nussbaum’s Methods of Justifying the Capabilities.

2006, Journal of Political Philosophy 14(3): 301-322.

Topics: Culture; Disability; Metaethics; Philosophy of Action

Keywords: capability approach; essentialism; moral authority; moral relativism; overlapping consensus; political liberalism

Traditions: Analytic; European; North American

Languages: English

Added by: Carl Fox

Content: Discusses Nussbaum's methodology and the question of whether she covertly relies on assumptions about her own moral authority.

Comment: Most useful as further reading on political liberalism or the capability approach.

Difficulty: Intermediate

Recommended use: Further

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