Description
This book brings together a team of leading theorists to address the question 'What is the right measure of justice?' Some contributors, following Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, argue that we should focus on capabilities, or what people are able to do and to be. Others, following John Rawls, argue for focussing on social primary goods, the goods which society produces and which people can use. Still others see both views as incomplete and complementary to one another. Their essays evaluate the two approaches in the light of particular issues of social justice - education, health policy, disability, children, gender justice - and the volume concludes with an essay by Amartya Sen, who originated the capabilities approach.
Chapter
Chapter 2 A critique of the capability approach
1 Some Supposed Contrasts Between the Capability and Resourcist Approaches
2 The Real Contrast: Compensation for natural differences
2.1 How resourcism is sensitive after all to unequal work-relevant endowments
2.2 The treatment of natural diversity: the vertical-inequality problem
2.3 The specificity required of a workable public criterion of social justice
Chapter 3 Equal opportunity, unequal capability
1 Primary Goods versus Functionings
2 Capability and Disability
3 Variations in “Normal” Ability
4 Motivation and Talent: equal capabilities?
5 Evaluating Status Inequalities
Chapter 4 Justifying the capabilities approach to justice
1 Specifying a Theory of Justice: do capability theories do the job?
2 Metric Options: subjective versus objective measures, capabilities versus resources
3 Four Reasons to Favor Capabilities over Resources
4 Further Objections to the Capabilities Approach
Chapter 5 Two cheers for capabilities
2 The Nature of Capability
3 Subjective Versus Objective Measures
4 Perfectionist Capability Versus Primary Goods
5 Two Resourcist Responses
6 The Claimed Unavailability of an Objective Standard of Well-Being
8 The Stigma and Insult Objection to the Perfectionist Capability Approach
Chapter 6 Capabilities, opportunity, and health
1 History of a Controversy
2 Capabilities and Exercisable Opportunities
3 Some Points of Contrast
4 Procedural Justice and Priority Setting: a shared problem
Chapter 7 What metric of justice for disabled people? Capability and disability
1 Social Primary Goods and Disability
1.1 Social primary goods, human diversity and disability
1.2 Social primary goods and justice for disabled people
1.2.a Evaluating disability through social primary goods
1.2.b Evaluating impairment and social and cultural factors
2 Capability and Disability
2.1 Capability, human diversity and disability
2.2 Some questions of justice
Chapter 8 Primary goods, capabilities, and children
1 Framing the Topic: dimensions of justice
4 Intrinsic Goods of Childhood
Chapter 9 Education for primary goods or for capabilities?
1 Education as a Primary Good?
2 Capabilities and Education
3 Measuring Justice in Education
Chapter 10 Gender and the metric of justice
2 Gender and justice as fairness
2.1 Gender and the scope of justice as fairness
2.2 The ideal theoretical nature of justice as fairness
2.3 A misguided exercise?
3 Gender justice and social primary goods in non-ideal theory
4 Gender justice in capabilities
5 Two Rawlsian objections
6 Towards a capability theory of gender justice
PART III Concluding essay
Chapter 11 The place of capability in a theory of justice
2 Rawlsian Foundations and the Place of Capabilities
3 Differences with Rawls on Matters Other than Primary Goods
5 Informational Relevance and Distributive Formulae
6 Capabilities and Resources
7 Objectivity and Completeness
Measuring Justice
：Primary Goods and Capabilities
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