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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
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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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