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.

Categories: Applied Ethics, Political Ethics, Value Theory

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

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 reading

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