Measuring Justice - Primary Goods and Capabilities

Informationen zum Autor Harry Brighouse is Professor of Philosophy and Affiliate Professor of Education Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His previous publications include On Education (2006). He was co-editor for The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism (Cambridge, 2005). Ingrid Robeyns is Professor of Practical Philosophy at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. She was co-editor for Amartya Sen's Work and Ideas: A Gender Perspective (2005). Klappentext Examines and evaluates two approaches to social justice! the capabilities approach and the primary goods approach. Zusammenfassung A team of leading theorists examine two approaches to social justice: the capabilities approach and the primary goods approach. Their essays evaluate the two approaches in the light of particular issues of social justice - education! health policy! disability! children! and gender justice. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Social primary goods and capabilities as metrics of justice Ingrid Robeyns and Harry Brighouse; Part I. Theory: 2. A critique on the capability approach Thomas Pogge; 3. Equal opportunity, unequal capability Erin Kelly; 4. Justifying the capabilities approach to justice Elizabeth Anderson; 5. Two cheers for capabilities Richard Arneson; Part II. Applications: 6. Capabilities, opportunity, and health Norman Daniel; 7. What metric for justice for disabled people? Capability and disability Lorella Terzi; 8. Primary goods, capabilities, and children Colin MacLeod; 9. Education for primary goods or for capabilities? Harry Brighouse and Elaine Unterhalter; 10. Gender and the metric of justice Ingrid Robeyns; Part III. Concluding Essay: 11. The place of capability in a theory of justice Amartya Sen.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Harry (Professor Brighouse, Harry Robeyns Brighouse
• Mitarbeit: Harry Brighouse (Herausgeber), Brighouse Harry (Herausgeber), Ingrid Robeyns (Herausgeber), Robeyns Ingrid (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 28.01.2010
• EAN: 9780521884518
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88451-8
• Seiten: 268
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; PHILOSOPHY / Political, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Welfare economics, Political science and theory