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Single Idea 21009
[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 1. Basis of justice
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Full Idea
Ten Capabilities: Life (decent), Health (reproduction, shelter), Safety, Mental life (with education), Love (relationships), Planning (with free beliefs), Joining in (and non-discrimination), Nature (relations to), Play, Control (politics and property).
Gist of Idea
Capabilities: Life, Health, Safety, Mental life, Love, Planning, Joining in, Nature, Play, Control
Source
report of Martha Nussbaum (Creating Capabilities [2011], 2) by PG - Db (ideas)
Book Ref
Nussbaum,Martha C.: 'Creating Capabilities' [Belknap Harvard 2013], p.33
A Reaction
She gives her crucial list in rather wordy form. To have impact it needs to be reduced to brief simple slogans.
Related Idea
Idea 21010
Justice requires that the ten main capabilities of people are reasonably enabled [Nussbaum]
The
22 ideas
from Martha Nussbaum
21007
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Storytelling is never neutral; some features of the world must be emphasised
[Nussbaum]
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21008
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Liberalism does not need a comprehensive account of value
[Nussbaum]
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21009
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Capabilities: Life, Health, Safety, Mental life, Love, Planning, Joining in, Nature, Play, Control
[Nussbaum, by PG]
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21010
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Justice requires that the ten main capabilities of people are reasonably enabled
[Nussbaum]
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21013
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Capabilities are grounded in bare humanity and agency; qualifying as rational is not needed
[Nussbaum]
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21014
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Rights are not just barriers against state interference; governments must affirm capabilities of citizens
[Nussbaum]
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21011
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We shouldn't focus on actual preferences, which may be distorted by injustices
[Nussbaum]
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21012
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Women are often treated like children, and not respected for their choices
[Nussbaum]
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21015
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Negative liberty is incoherent; all liberties, to do and to be, require the prevention of interference
[Nussbaum]
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21016
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Political and civil rights are not separate from economic and social rights
[Nussbaum]
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21017
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Political freedom is an incoherent project, because some freedoms limit other freedoms
[Nussbaum]
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21020
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Any establishment belief system is incompatible with full respect for all citizens
[Nussbaum]
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21019
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Social contracts assume equal powers among the participants
[Nussbaum]
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21026
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Compassion is unreliable, because it favours people close to us
[Nussbaum]
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21022
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The Capabilities Approach sees animals as agents, not just as having feelings
[Nussbaum]
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21021
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Keep premises as weak as possible, to avoid controversial difficulties
[Nussbaum]
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21025
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Particularism gives no guidance for the future
[Nussbaum]
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21023
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We should respect animals in the way that we respect the animal nature in humans
[Nussbaum]
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21024
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It may be no harm to kill an animal which cannot plan for its future
[Nussbaum]
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22688
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The Aristotelian idea that choices can be perceived needs literary texts to expound it
[Nussbaum]
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21125
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Liberals must respect family freedom - but families are the great oppressors of women
[Nussbaum]
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21836
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Philosophers after Aristotle endorsed the medical analogy for eudaimonia
[Nussbaum, by Flanagan]
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