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Respecting Human Dignity: Contract Versus Capabilities
In Eva Feder Kittay & Licia Carlson (eds.), Cognitive Disability and its Challenge to Moral Philosophy. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 111–125 (2010)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Justifying the Capabilities Approach Justification and the Value of Rational Agency Conclusion Acknowledgments References.Author's Profile
respecting human dignity ‐ contract versus capabilities liberal justice ‐ the idea of justifiability idea of justifiability to all ‐ expressed through device of social contract social contract theory, that rational agents are subjects of justice Nussbaum and capabilities view ‐ not using social contract apparatus, fulfilling liberal standard of justification Nussbaum's view of political justification ‐ subtle and complex Nussbaum's Approach to Political Justification justification and value of rational agency overlapping consensus, constituted by reasonable agreement adjusting liberal political theory, claims of those ‐ whose capacity for rational agency is compromised
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