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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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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).
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From:
report of Martha Nussbaum (Creating Capabilities [2011], 2) by PG - Db (ideas)
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A reaction:
She gives her crucial list in rather wordy form. To have impact it needs to be reduced to brief simple slogans.
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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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Full Idea:
The basic claim of my account of social justice is this: respect for human dignity requires that citizens be placed above an ample (specified) threshold of capability in all ten of the areas.
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From:
Martha Nussbaum (Creating Capabilities [2011], 2)
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A reaction:
[The capabilities are given, briefly, in Idea 21009] The one word that bothers me here is 'dignity'. It is very vague, and can, I think, be reduced to much clearer and more obvious concepts. A person lacks dignity when they vomit, in ordinary usage.
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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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Full Idea:
A prominent idea, common in the U.S., sees rights as barriers against interfering state action. ...The Capabilities Approach, by contrast, insists that all entitlements involve an affirmative task for government, to actively support capabilities.
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From:
Martha Nussbaum (Creating Capabilities [2011], 3)
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A reaction:
This makes her approach very left wing, by U.S. standards, because it needs higher taxation and a degree of government paternalism. Her approach strikes me as an excellent agenda for a fairly interventionist European liberal party.
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