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Full Idea
The Capabilities Approach sees animals as agents, not as receptacles of pleasure or pain.
Gist of Idea
The Capabilities Approach sees animals as agents, not just as having feelings
Source
Martha Nussbaum (Creating Capabilities [2011], 8)
Book Ref
Nussbaum,Martha C.: 'Creating Capabilities' [Belknap Harvard 2013], p.160
A Reaction
This is in opposition to the utilitarian view. The key consequence is that animals can be victims of injustice, as well as of cruelty. Nice.